Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes: > > As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > > entirely. I think that

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
> As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather > than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For > that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture > entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires > an fdisk

Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zero Sum writes: > : Does this allow multiple partitions on a zip? > > Yes, but fdisk is awkward to use for editing. How about fdisk -e in similar vein as disklabel -e? As the PC architecture requires, just us