Subject: RE: disklabel problems
To: steven.grunza@dgms.com <steven.grunza@dgms.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@Melog.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/21/1999 17:42:55
At 10:54 21.05.99 -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
>On Friday, May 21, 1999 10:09 AM, Hauke Fath [SMTP:hf@Melog.DE] wrote:

>> Same experience here (on a Sparc IPX, yesterday).
>> IMHO, the disklabel(8) manpage is a mess.
>>
>Actually, "disklabel -C -e sd1"  has worked great for me on port-sparc. 
> The -C gives you a cylinder/heads/sector type of display which makes it 
>much easier to start and stop partitions on cylinder boundaries.

You prove my point.  =8)

I have had to mess with disklabel(8) several times so far, and I never fell
over '-C'. Compare 'man 8 disklabel' to, say, 'man 8 fsck_ffs', and you'll
get the idea.

Luckily, on mac68k, we don't do disklabels.

	hauke
  

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