Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:26:12 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603231926.LAA12385@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
>>>> But the problem is, fdisk doesn't seem to enable disklabel to
>>>> do it's job.
>>>can you say more? did you try rebooting between the two?
>>Whoa. No. Is -that- it? The magic bullet I have been looking for?
>Perhaps. fdisk writes tables to the disk and doesn't use the ioctl to
>tell the system that the disk has changed.
Great.
>However, the system reads
>the tables of the disk on the next open of a device on the disk provided
>no other device on the disk is already open.
The raw device? So all I have to do is fdisk this again?
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>>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<
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