Subject: Re: "cd0: no disk label"
To: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/25/2002 16:05:33
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:55:10PM +1000, grant beattie wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:49:17PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > Whenever I mount a CD I get:
> > 
> > cd0: no disk label
> > 
> > Everybody knows that cd9660 file system doesn't have a disk label. So
> > what's the purpose of this meaningless message? 
> 
> CDs can have disklabels just like any other device, and the partitions
> inside may contain cd9660, ffs, or any other type of file system or
> data.
> 
> I don't think the fact that some CDs do not have labels makes the
> warning "meaningless".

I guess 99.99......9% of CDs produced so far don't have disk labels.
And I have never seen a program that can burn a CD in FFS format.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. ;-)

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>