Subject: Re: disk label support?
To: Wayne Knowles <wdk@netbsd.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 09/24/2001 12:12:20
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:36:49PM +1200, Wayne Knowles wrote:
> Given the sgimips port has gone for 16 partitions in the disklabel, can we
> not choose to use the 1:1 mapping and leave it in slice 8??  Unfortunately
> there is no NetBSD filsystem type that accurately describes the contents,
> hence it is made Unknown.
> 
> The only slice that really needs renumbering is slice 10 to be slice 2 -
> that way the 'c' partition is the entire disk as in the majority of NetBSD
> based ports.

Agreed.


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Soren