Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:55:29 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000323002543.00a99c00@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <14553.22411.265795.429126@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org> <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 12:26:20 EST." <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org>
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At 06:30 PM 3/22/00 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: >I guess I don't see how to use, eg, da0a without being "dangerously >dedicated". When I did my install of FBSD 3.3, the partitioning >process asked if I was sharing the disk or not. I said no, so it took >over the entire disk, but I still get the long-sliced names like >/dev/wd0s1a rather than the /dev/wd0a I'd expect since there is only >one slice on the whole disk. My zip drive uses /dev/da0a after I did >a newfs on it, though. In fstab you could use wd0a rather than wd0s1a. Is it DD, no. Does it work, yes. Is doing so a good idea, not sure. Just dropped the s1 part from every device in fstab and rebooted with no problem. Not having to 'sh MAKEDEV wds1a' when updating /dev (or adding it to MAKEDEV.local) is about the only advantage, but that doesn't help much since vinum is using the slice versions. Maybe it could use the non-slice versions, but don't care to try at this moment. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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