Subject: RE: More than you.. suggestion
To: 'port-i386@NetBSD.ORG' <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/15/1997 19:48:40
One thing I'd like to see was having disklabel be able to find out a
disk's geometry and write a default label like on Digital Unix (OSF/1).
On that system, 'disklabel -rw <disk> <type>' will write a label to any
disk, even if there is no label on the disk from before. Note that you
can specify anything for <type>, if you enter a valid name from the
/etc/disktab file then that entry is used. If not, disklabel probes the
drive for geometry and calculates "reasonable" partitions. When that's
done you can run 'disklabel -e' and modify the partitions to your
liking.
Maybe this scheme isn't possible on IDE drives, but it should be
possible to implement on SCSI drives?
Gunnar
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Squier [SMTP:groo@guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu]
>Sent: Friday, August 15, 1997 6:07 PM
>To: prlw1@cam.ac.uk
>Cc: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: More than you.. suggestion
>
>Heh. You'd think that, wouldn't you. The current discussion is about
>disklabel being slightly broken.