On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 08:36:35 -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>
> > > ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you
> > > don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels,
> > > and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type
> > > 4.2BSD.
> >
> > Does that mean I should not use partition c as a 4.2BSD type? This is what
> > I am currently doing on all disks (ccd'ed or single) if the whole disk is
> > used as one big filesystem, e.g.:
>
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> > c: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*)
>
> I've been admonished for using the c partition as a filesystem since it's
> somewhat magic. For regular disks the running recommendation is to make
> another partition (a or g or whatever) that is identical to the c
> partition information, and to newfs/mount that. I personally haven't run
> into problems but I've been warned that the c partition interface is
> subject to change.
OK, I see. So I am going to use the a partition in future and leave
c unused.
Thanks,
-Andre
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