cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jun 6 06:57:32 UTC 2007


In message <200706061141.04765.doconnor at gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Connor" writes
:

>On Wednesday 06 June 2007 07:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> : '$1~/\\dev\\/(aacd|ad|afd|amrd|ar|da|idad|ipsd|mfid|mlxd|twed)/ &&
>> : \ $2~/\\/$/ {print substr($1, 1, index($1, \"s\") - 1)}'
>> : /etc/fstab`");
>> :
>> : where the regex is built from every device name in device_names
>> : (which even then doesn't cater for GEOM where devices might be
>> : called anything).  This is something that would require a build
>> : tool, which is why I haven't done it yet.
>>
>> "mmcsd" is also a disk.
>
>Why not iterate over the output of sysctl -n kern.disks?

Wrong answer.

Right answer:  Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml


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