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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Experience with Fujistu 4GB SCSI drive Date: 18 Jan 1997 22:59:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5brkkp$35u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5bfd3a$oh3@chenab.lums.edu.pk> <5blclm$i6h@raven.eva.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34200 jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau) wrote: > Everything requires a disktab entry. :) Nothing requires a disktab entry. :-) It's always possible to create the required data on the fly. In newer systems, ``disklabel ... auto'' assists you in doing this. Btw., any freshly installed FreeBSD doesn't have a disktab entry for its disk either. Sysinstall doesn't bother to write one (since it also doesn't use one itself). -- 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. ;-)