Subject: wedges questions and next steps
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/2007 13:14:14
I would like to convert a lot of my systems to wedges, but I am not
finding documentation on some important aspects. Any help?
1 Most of my systems grok MBR. None grok GPT. How do I put both an
MBR and a GPT on the same disk?
2 I've looked in manual pages for mount, fstab, etc., and in
/usr/share/examples/, but I have not found the document that tells me
how to mount filesystems by, say, GPT label (GUID?).
3 Does anyone have a plan for uniquely identifying wedges on removable
media such as USB / FireWire HDDs and floppy disks, which may or may
use a "legacy" partitioning scheme, or no partitioning at all?
It must help that most HDDs can be identified by a h/w serial number,
and many FAT filesystems contain some sort of volume ID?
4 Is there anything like a roadmap for wedges?
Dave
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