Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:31:56 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011201332.eAKDWTB68389@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:55:51 MST." <200011200855.BAA20585@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200011200855.BAA20585@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > In message <00112018421905.61849@shalimar.net.au> Zero Sum writes: > : Does this allow multiple partitions on a zip? > > Yes, but fdisk is awkward to use for editing. How about fdisk -e in similar vein as disklabel -e? As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires an fdisk label and disklabel is redundant. It seems like a no-brainer to me, just remove support for disklabel entirely. Simple and end of argument. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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