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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Disklabel to Disktab Filter
Date: 20 Jul 93 20:08:32
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Jul20200832@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <JJH.93Jul21112400@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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In-reply-to: jjh@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au's message of Wed, 21 Jul 1993 01:24:00 GMT
In article <JJH.93Jul21112400@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au> jjh@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Joe Holloway) writes:
>Here is a little script for converting the output of disklabel
>for insertion into the disktab file.
it's also worth remembering, that once you've got a label on your disk,
you can say
disklabel disk > foofile
and then at a later time:
disklabel -R -r < foofile
to restore the old label...
note that this will only work if the label on the disk is
"acceptable" to disklabel -- i.e. all of the partitions fit
the disk, etc. unless i'm mistaken the 386bsd0.1 install program
*doesn't* generate labels that disklabel considers "reasonable".
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass