I hate to bitch but bitch I must

Manolis Kiagias sonicy at otenet.gr
Sat Oct 17 22:54:52 UTC 2009


PJ wrote:
>
> manual: "it is assumed that a single ATA disk is used, which is
> currently recognized by the system as ad0. It is also assumed that the
> standard FreeBSD partition scheme is used, with /, /var, /usr and /tmp
> file systems, as well as a swap partition."
>
> Now, does that mean that glabel does not work if there are several disks
> on the system... it certainly does not say so nor does it adv ertise
> that this would not work if there are several ATA disks present..
> Previously I had also tried a reboot press 4 with exactly the same
> results....
>
>   

It does say "Example" on top.
And then again:

For this *example* it is assumed that a single ATA disk is used,...

It doesn't say what will not work with it. It simply assumes some
defaults to give a reasonable example.
Now, don't tell me this is ambiguous too...


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