On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:30:37PM -0400, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> > sleep 100 </dev/wd1d &
> > mbrlabel -f -w /dev/wd1d
> > mount -t msdos /dev/wd1a /mnt
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I understand everything but the first line. What does it do?

Keep the device open. when the device is closed the in-core disklabel
is cleared. So the new partition in-core table created by mbrlabel
would be lost before you can run mount.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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