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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!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: 8 Apr 1996 02:44:53 GMT Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4k9uj5$pom@news2.cais.com> References: <199603271928.LAA25885@kithrup.com> <Pine.BSI.3.91.960328154736.6597A-100000@cais.cais.com> <4k1fmp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k4i2q$4dd@news2.cais.com> <4k5ulj$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cais.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) writes: : > 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. : So now, *we* are already ``tainted'' in that we know what a partition : is, how the disk is subdivided etc. Since you seem to have just : climbed up this hill, how about submitting a different explanation for : it? Either, make the man page clearer, or submit an entry for the FAQ : or handbook? You are *most* welcome! Okay. Would you happen to know where a full-text version of "A Fast File System for UNIX" might be found, on-line? This trail is fraught with peril.