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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to combine two file systems
Date: 26 Aug 1996 07:08:07 GMT
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> I was going to suggest disklabel -e wd1 (assuming that your two partitions
> are next to eachother).  I'm writing this on a 960323-SNAP laptop with
> an IDE disk, and tried "disklabel -e wd0" to see what would happen.  The
> expected happened - I was about to post when I said ":q" from the vi
> that disklabel invoked.  The X screen scrolled up about 2 inches and the
> machine rebooted...... *BANG*

Known bug for quite some time.  None of the releases has been
affected.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)