Subject: disk label conventions
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/2003 13:50:34
Is there a convention for which NetBSD device should be used for on
mountable volumes that have only MSDOS file systems? Currently, I have
some that use 'e' but one that uses 'd'. Should I just use disklabel
to fix it? More precisely, at least one of the devices (a USB widget)
has no label, so the kernel is using 'e' -- should I just wipe the
other "disk"? dd if=/dev/zero?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)