BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite
Danny Braniss
danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Fri Oct 20 12:24:54 UTC 2006
> Danny Braniss wrote:
> > Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the
> > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for
> > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively
> > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/...".
> >
> > I use 'bsdlabel -s[1234] /dev/mydisk' all the time when
> > changing between 'slices'
>
> Uhm? What version of FreeBSD are you using? In RELENG_6
> I only get the usage message when I try -s, and the manpage
> doesn't mention it either.
>
> Looking at the source, the getopt(3) string indeed contains
> "s:", but the code never checks for it and falls through to
> the default case (which spits out the usage message and
> exits). Looks like a bug.
sorry!, it was before morning coffee,
s/bsdlabel/boot0cfg/
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