cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:34:59PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:25 -0700:
> >   * No such default name.  In that case, the docs could get
> >     pretty ugly if we have to say things like "... after
> >     using fdisk, you need to label the disk with bsdlabel,
> >     sunlabel, foolabel, or xyzlabel, depending on your platform
> >     and disk-labelling preferences."  I'm not sure I want
> >     to be the one who has to explain that one.
> 
> but if you try to fdisk a sun disk, it won't do you much good since

What does fdisk have to do with anything?  Fdisk is a PeeCee thing, not a
BSD Unix thing.  disklabel is, and that is the level of things we are
talking about here.

> geom (I've succesfully read apple's label on sparc)..  it's more
> of a question of making sure it boots...

Sorry, I thought that went w/o saying.
 
> Making a disk bootable is quit platform specific..

It doesn't need to be so wildly different.  Honestly, what is the use in
having two programs on two different platforms that are almost identical
to "drive" doing the same functionality, yet having two different names?
What is served by that?
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)