On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:

> I've an interesting issue with cgd(4) which has been brought to my
> attention by Lubomir Sedlacik.  That is: if cgdconfig(8) configures
> up a cgd with a randomkey then the device does not have a disklabel.
> This is all good for ffs because the default disklabel has a default
> type for the RAW_PART partition which is of type 4.2BSD but it
> poses a problem for swapping.  I've thought of a few ways to solve
> this issue and wanted to propose some of them for feedback.

	How about an option to disklabel to create a single partition
	spanning the given device with the specified type.

	Eg:	disklabel -g cgd0 a swap

	could be useful for autogenerated vnd devices and similar.
	(though it may make sense to fail if there are any other non
	raw partitions in existance on the device :)


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