cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Thu Aug 28 11:54:50 PDT 2003


"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote:
> In message <200308280815.12638.wes at softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes:
> 
> >If I understand this correctly, this is a nice little change.  You're 
> >trying to discourage people from just using the 'c' partition *as a 
> >filesystem*, right?  
> 
> yes.

I'd like to see this go further and have the magic 'c' partition go away.
eg: instead of using ad0c or ad0s1c, use ad0 or ad0s1 as the 'whole
partition'.    Having ad0c and ad0 as pseudo aliases for each other is a
waste of a disklabel partition IMHO.

Cheers,
-Peter
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