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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: disk partitons in 386BSD In-Reply-To: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark's message of 30 Apr 93 08: 21:15 Message-ID: <DERAADT.93May1174014@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <1826@dcsc.dla.mil> <GENE.93Apr30082115@stark.uucp> Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 00:40:14 GMT Lines: 27 In article <GENE.93Apr30082115@stark.uucp> gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) writes: >In article <1826@dcsc.dla.mil> cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) writes: >> Up to this point, I have had no problems with the filesystem. >> Now I want to add /dev/wd1d as /ftp for an anon ftp directory structure >> when I mount /dev/wd1d on /ftp , it shows all the data from /dev/wd1a (/p). > The wd driver interprets the "d" partition specially as "the whole BSD area". > Very embarrassing results can occur if the "d" "partition" is mounted at the > same time as another normal partition, and attempts to do this should produce > warning messages on the console. > This has been explained a number of times here, is it in the FAQ? For more > information, have a look at /sys/i386/isa/wd.c For more information, look and see how the supposidly architecture independent file ufs/ufs_disksubr.c now assumes that all architectures have disks with DOS labels on it. The use of the d partition for the entire disk is also non-standard. The 386BSD c/d partition crud has got to go. A case of fine McNalley's beer to the first person to rewrite this cruft so that it works in a more standard unix fashion. <tdr. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca