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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: 3rd party disks & /etc/mtab ..raw
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <34036@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 02:54:50 GMT
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- In <34036@adm.brl.mil> tkirkman@bardeen.physics.csbsju.edu (Tom Kirkman) writes:
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-
- | If I cat my /etc/mtab, I get:
- | 3# cat /etc/mtab
- | /dev/root / efs rw,raw=/dev/rroot 0 0
- | /dev/usr /usr efs rw,raw=/dev/rusr 0 0
- | /debug /debug dbg rw 0 0
- | tiny.computing:/dua2/tiny /usr/tiny nfs rw,bg,hard,intr,dev=1200 0 0
- | /dev/dsk/dks0d5s6 /people2 efs rw,raw=/dev/dsk/dks0d5s6,fsck,noquota 0 0
- | /dev/dsk/dks0d5s0 /tftpboot2 efs rw,raw=/dev/dsk/dks0d5s0,fsck,noquota 0 0
- |
- | where /dev/root & /dev/usr are a SGI disk & /dev/dsk/dks0d5 is a 3rd
- | party disk. The 3rd party disk was mounted with the vadmin GUI.
- | Note the raw= part: for the SGI disk it points to the rdsk device
- | while the 3rd party raw= part points to the dsk device...
-
- It won't hurt anything, but it will slow down fsck quite a bit.
-
- I'd hand edit /etc/fstab so the raw devices are rdsk. I've never
- heard this bug reported for the disk tool before, but that doesn't
- mean a whole lot; most people would probably not notice.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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