cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs defs.h mkfs.c newfs.8 newfs.c

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue May 22 09:45:24 PDT 2007


:Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>   NOTE: newfs will no longer retrieve the fs fragment and block size fi=
:elds
:>   from the disklabel, so non-default operation must be specified with o=
:ptions.
:>   newfs will also no longer attempt to update the disklabel.
:
:I think this was a quite useful feature, but if it is too much effort to =
:keep supporting it then of course we shouldn't.  is there still a field t=
:o edit the sizes in disklabel or has this been dropped as well?
:
:cheers
:  simon

    Its gone.  And I removed the cylinder comments too... replaced them
    with partition size comments.  Nobody cares about cylinder alignment
    in disklabels any more.

						-Matt





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