On Monday, 1 November 1999 at 17:49:29 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>>
>>>> ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you
>>>> don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels,
>>>> and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type
>>>> 4.2BSD.
>>>
>>> Does that mean I should not use partition c as a 4.2BSD type? This is what
>>> I am currently doing on all disks (ccd'ed or single) if the whole disk is
>>> used as one big filesystem, e.g.:
>>
>>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>> c: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*)
>>
>> I've been admonished for using the c partition as a filesystem since it's
>> somewhat magic. For regular disks the running recommendation is to make
>> another partition (a or g or whatever) that is identical to the c
>> partition information, and to newfs/mount that. I personally haven't run
>> into problems but I've been warned that the c partition interface is
>> subject to change.
>
> OK, I see. So I am going to use the a partition in future and leave
> c unused.
BTW, it's pretty trivial to change things. Run 'disklabel -e da0' (or
whatever your drive is), duplicate the line and change to, say:
c: 45322644 0 unused 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*)
e: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*)
Greg
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