> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:56:45AM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I've done the following and at first I didn't mail in case it was a > > weird vmware bug but it does exactly the same thing on real hardware. > > > > Someone mentioned fairly recently in 'equivalent of Linux "mount -o > > bind"' which should interest a recent poster a little, that you could > > use /dev/wd* directly with vnconfig which seemed faster and easier, it > > is not in the man page so maybe there is something lucky or hit and > > miss when it works and so hopefully someone will know straight away and > > make me look stupid as to why I'm at a loss with what I've found. > > > > I've used wd1c as an immovable object in disklabel which is working but > > figured I should atleast report the following in case it isn't > > expected. Should I use an image file on wd1a instead of /dev/wd1c? > > Yes. Never use 'c' for anything permanent. It is the kernel's and not > yours.
Ken is right. 'c' is the special partition that is the whole disk no matter what the disklabel says.
