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Date: Sun 20-Feb-1989 19:54:12 From: Unknown Subject: disk program damages OD label If you initialize an OD with a single, `a' partition, using the "-t omd-all-1" hint supplied by carlton@betelgeuse.berkeley.edu, the disk program will damage the OD label when you try to add the host name and disk label. Here are some diffs between label printings before and after writing label information. < before --- after > 6,7c6,7 < disk label: INITIALIZED < disk name: omd-1-all --- > disk label: od.abe > disk name: omd-1 14c14 < host name: noname --- > host name: vic.cc.purdue.edu 17c17,18 < a 0 247104 8192 1024 3 4096 10% yes time no 4.3BSD --- > a 0 157104 8192 1024 3 4096 10% yes time no 4.3BSD > b 157104 90000 8192 1024 3 8192 10% yes time no 4.3BSD Note that the disk name changed from "omd-1-all" to "omd-1", causing (apparently) the disk partition count to change from one to two. The disk label and host name changes noted in the diffs are the actual changes made via the disk program's label/write command. Vic Abell >From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Date: Sun 21-Feb-1989 15:28:30 From: Unknown Subject: Re: disk program damages OD label In article <1779@mace.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes: >If you initialize an OD with a single, `a' partition, using the >"-t omd-all-1" hint supplied by carlton@betelgeuse.berkeley.edu, >the disk program will damage the OD label when you try to add the >host name and disk label. If your disk is built with omd-all-1, then you need to specify this type when specifying the hostname and label info. For instance: disk -H hostname -t omd-all-1 /dev/rod0a Ali Ozer, aozer@NeXT.com NeXT Developer Support >From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Date: Sun 22-Feb-1989 16:46:40 From: Unknown Subject: Re: disk program damages OD label > ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes: > > If your disk is built with omd-all-1, then you need to specify this type > when specifying the hostname and label info. For instance: > > disk -H hostname -t omd-all-1 /dev/rod0a Why can't /etc/disk try to read the type info from the disk label, especially when one is using disk's interactive mode to update label information? That way, it would be possible to write a host name and a disk label name without having to explicitly state [and make a typo on :-)] or know the type. >From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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