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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.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 (McGraw-Hill CEC) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: God Damn partition crap! Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:52:50 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4j9ati$rtk@news2.cais.com> References: <4hqav8$kmo@nntp.interaccess.com> <3140F2B6.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4i1qp4$bmj@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4i50q6$64i@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4i727m$1hl@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4j0mhb$r6i@calypso.bns.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael Talbot-Wilson (mike@calypso.bns.com.au) wrote: : It remains a paradigm of FreeBSD documentation that the /sys tree : is absolutely devoid of it, except in one deeply hidden and incongruously : named file. Any other distribution would have a README in the top level : directory, but in the FreeBSD kernel source, forget it. So little would : be required, just two or three lines mentioning the existence of a : program named config and a file it has to read. Is it seriously : suggested that someone else should write and contribute those two or : three lines because the core team are too important and too busy to : document their own work? That deafening roar of key-click noise you just heard was 10,000 FreeBSD-ers typing "find / -name config". ;-) In modest defense of the puissant "core team", let's admit that the man pages for FreeBSD are, in general, better than the Linux manpages. On the other hand, adding a disk or a partition is not something that the average user can hack his/her way through; clues are scarce; disklabel is mystical at best. imho.