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On Oct 1, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> The main reason I wanted to map the names is that Apple tends to create
> long-ish names, like on the order of 12 to 15 letters, while we tend to
> stick to names from 3 to 6 letters. So anything which dumps a lot of
> wedges & types will end up either chopping off part of the type or 
> wasting
> lots of space on wedges used for NetBSD (depending on how the "type"
> column is formatted). Thus the desire for smaller names.

I think it's a mistake to assume that anything even vaguely resembling 
the disklabel(8) utility will be used to manipulate wedges.  I made the 
wedge "type" string 32 bytes just so we could work with meaningful type 
strings :-)

Jason Thorpe
'76 Westfalia ('Pod')
San Francisco, CA
http://www.shagadelic.org/pod/


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