Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:19:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <3E348920.7EF6E966@mindspring.com> References: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > 8-). > > > > It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care > > about its contents, why should you? 8-) 8-). > > I've found it useful when recovering trashed partition info to make sure > I've found the right superblocks. I've personally used it this way as well. On the other hand, it just saves a step, and isn't necessary, if that's what you are trying to do, since you can find the same information by mounting the thing up read-only (FWIW). My own personal use is actually to get rid of fstab on an old FreeBSD 2.2 machine, which does auto-mounting on device arrival. But as people pointed out, this doesn't work so well in the case that you have multiple OS's on locally attached disks, and it doesn't work so well for SANdisk type disks. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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