On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 05:21:37AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ib-Michael Martinsen wrote:
> 
> > I set up a fake disklabel in /etc/disktab, defined a filesystem in
> > /etc/fstab and mounted it and it worked! I had it set up in less
> > than 10 minutes.
> 
> I didn't know you could do that. Doesn't applying the disktab label
> write to the disk?

IIRC it depends what you believe :-)

The documentation seems to imply you can set the kernel disklabel
without writing to the disk....

The kernel code that updates the in core label seems to always
update the disk copy :-(


	David

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