From owner-freebsd-fs Fri May 17 12:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B085937B404 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0392.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.137] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178nbO-0007fE-00; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:41:23 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE55CC5.D123AD76@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:40:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel(8) correction? References: <20020517073838.A98400@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Lucas wrote: > # man disklabel > ... > Disklabel installs, examines or modifies the label on a disk drive or > pack. > ^^^^^ > > I understand that pack is very old terminology. Should it even be in > the man page these days? (Discussion on IRC said no, but email is the > "official forum" for discussing such things.) > > I'll get it fixed if not. How do you refer to "removable fixed disk media"? I guess we can call it "cartridge", which is what Syquest calls them. What does IBM call them? I'm pretty sure IOmega calls them "Zip disks" and "JAZ drive removable media". IMO, "pack" is as good a single word generic term as any. If you need to change it, you should probably get rid of "disk drive", as well, and replace "disk" onward with "storage media". While you are at it, rename it "smlabel". Ugh. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message