Hi, David!

That's not what I asked, but thanks for playing!  :)

I meant that sun sprinkles a few backup disklabels in weird spots on the
disk such that if the master disklabel gets clobbered by something else
(REDHAT/SPARC comes to mind :/ ), Solaris can recover the old label.

Heh.  I didn't realise those were created automagically; I used to do
that exact thing by hand.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, David Maxwell wrote:

# Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:22:41 -0400
# From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
# To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
# Cc: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>, current-users@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: Direct disk editing & regenerating partition info.
#
# On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:53:07AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
# > I know that Sun's format program (which does disklabeling, among other
# > things) stores multiple copies of a disklabel on the disk.
# >
# > Do we do such a thing with our disklabel program, or could we find some
# > place to store backup disklabels, for just such an emergency...?
# >
# > [actually, reflecting, I realise this is not precisely a fix for Mr.
# > Latte, but I've had occasions where I was sure glad that I had backup
# > disklabels sitting around!]
# >
# > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
# >
# > # Sorry for the repost, I just realized that the layout might be the same
# > # across ports, and some of the other ports have had more disk problems than
# > # port-i386.
# > #
# > # This is a disk layout question and I am also curious whether the partition
# > # info is similar across platforms.
# > #
#
# Try /var/backups/disklabel.*
#
# As part of /etc/security, those are created. I believe you can thank
# Andrew Brown (with later additions by Luke Mewburn).
#
# --
# David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
# mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
# but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
# in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville
#
#


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