Subject: Re: mbrlabel and extended partitions (NetBSD 1.6.1/i386)
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/07/2003 16:01:33
On Friday 06 June 2003 14:55, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:39:46PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
>   | > What's wrong ? It looks like mbrlabel capable to read extended
>   | > partitions table but due to some reasons it cannot add it into
>   | > in-core disklabel.
>   |
>   | At a guess it is adding it to the in core disklabel, but the diskla=
bel
>   | is discarded when all the partitions are closed!
>   |
>   | You might be able to keep the disklabel from disappearing by doing
>   | something like:
>   |
>   | # sleep 9999 </dev/wd1d &
>
> Or try
> =09dkctl wd1 keeplabel yes
>

"man dkctl" says that there are no keeplabel command. Quick look at the s=
ource=20
code of dkctl gives the same result. So i cannot run "dkctl keeplabel" on=
=20
1.6.1/i386 just course it's unsupported  :)

Any other ideas ? "sleep 9999 < /dev/wd1" dosn't look good for me :)

// wbr