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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems/Network Administrator
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