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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news2.cais.com!cais.cais.com!mcgraw From: mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okay, I give up. Date: 6 Apr 1996 01:40:42 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4k4i2q$4dd@news2.cais.com> References: <199603271928.LAA25885@kithrup.com> <Pine.BSI.3.91.960328154736.6597A-100000@cais.cais.com> <4k1fmp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Michael Curry <mcgraw@cais.cais.com> writes: : > Anyway, yesterday it was deduced that the second drive might have to be : > addressed as /dev/rwd1 instead of /dev/wd1, as far as writing a disklabel : > is concerned. : Simply use `wd1' instead of all the /dev/foowd23bar notion, and let : disklabel(8) decide which device node(s) to use. J, now that I have spent enough time with disklabel and disktab to have begun to recognize how *fundamentally* different the concept is from, oh, silly me, MSDOS?, and the subsequent realignment permitted me to go back and re-read the related manpages...well, all I can say is that *somebody* in the *BSD scheme had or has serious shortcomings insofar as *explanation* is concerned. There's a big difference between explanation and definition. But then, <shrug>, you get what you pay for, I guess.