Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:24:52 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, r00t_0101@yahoo.com Subject: Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite Message-ID: <E1GatQi-0009gk-Ak@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <200610201111.k9KBB90l071861@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200610201111.k9KBB90l071861@lurza.secnetix.de>
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> Danny Braniss wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the > > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for > > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively > > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/...". > > > > I use 'bsdlabel -s[1234] /dev/mydisk' all the time when > > changing between 'slices' > > Uhm? What version of FreeBSD are you using? In RELENG_6 > I only get the usage message when I try -s, and the manpage > doesn't mention it either. > > Looking at the source, the getopt(3) string indeed contains > "s:", but the code never checks for it and falls through to > the default case (which spits out the usage message and > exits). Looks like a bug. sorry!, it was before morning coffee, s/bsdlabel/boot0cfg/
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