Location of disklabel

2005-03-10 Thread Carl J
Hi all! To all your FS guru's outthere, I desperately need to know where the disklabel is stored (since my disk is in trouble!) Situation: My /dev/ad0s1 has 2 partitions: "a" (FS) followed by "b" (swap). By using "disklabel -r", I see my "a" and "b" indeed take up the entire slice. My despera

open() vs the lowest unused file descriptor

2004-10-15 Thread Carl J
Hi! Today I noticed that on Single Unix Specification V2, as well as on the Linux 2.4.26 machine I have here, that the open() call promises to return the lowest unused file descriptor. I'm just wondering: does FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x promise that? If so, I think we should update the manpage to match SU

MD5 Mismatch in 4.7

2002-12-17 Thread Carl J
Hi! The 4.7-disc1.iso on the FTP server seems to contain files that have the same name but different contents than if I download the sub files individually from the FTP server! 1. I downloaded the ISO image (4.7-disc1.iso) from ftp.freebsd.org (62.243.72.50), from /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/I

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD. But I don't know what programs to use to burn them to a DVD-R so that the resulting disc would be playable on an external player (assuming the external player accepts DVD-R) It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image. And cdrecord and bu

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD.But I don't know what programs to use to burnthem to a DVD-R so that the resulting discwould be playable on an external player(assuming the external player accepts DVD-R)It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image.And cdrecord and burncd

How to burn IFO, VOB... files to make a playable DVD

2007-01-14 Thread Carl J
Hi! I ripped the ifo, vob... files from a DVD. But I don't know what programs to use to burn them to a DVD-R so that the resulting disc would be playable on an external player (assuming the external player accepts DVD-R) It seems growisofs only takes files or whole-disc-image. And cdrecord and bu