cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Thu Aug 28 12:32:53 PDT 2003


Peter Wemm wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> Before this turns into another 'thread from hell', let me clarify that.

Oh crap. I forgot about the f*cked up braindamage in the bootblocks
about this.  Sigh.

Cheers,
-Peter
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