On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:43:31PM +0100, mickey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:41:47PM +0100, Robbert Haarman wrote: > > > > This still leaves the issue of ccdconfig setting up the c partition as > > type 4.2BSD. If this can thrash the disklabel, that sounds like a > > serious bug. Is that going to be fixed? > > of course oif you make a it use 'c' it will reset the type. > so do not use it (:
I'm not sure what you mean here. What I meant is that ccdconfig will automatically create a disklabel with partition c set to type 4.2BSD when you run it the first time. This has bugged many people who were trying to create their own partitions, as disklabel will not let you create any partitions when the type of partition c is set to anything other than unused. I assumed, as others did, that the fact that ccdconfig sets things up this way means that you can use the c partition for storing files on. You just told me this is not true, and it can in fact thrash the disklabel on your real disk. Therefore, it seems to me that ccdconfig setting the type of partition c to 4.2BSD is wrong. So I was wondering aloud if that is indeed a bug and if it will be fixed. > please make your writing into real openbsd faq entry. > i bet _then_ people will actually pay attention to it in the future (: You mean like an entry in the FAQ on the OpenBSD website? How do I go about doing that? Cheers, Bob --- "A good engineer will go to any amount of effort to avoid extra effort." [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
