Re: Where are wd0s1, wd0s2, wd0s3?

[Heikki Korpela <heko@iki.fi>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Todd C. Miller wrote:

> When a disk has no real BSD disklabel the kernel creates
> a fake one (so the disk can be used).

> This fake label will include DOS and Linux partitions found in the
> fdisk table.  That means that any subsequent changes to DOS or Linux
> fdisk partitions will not be present in your label.  It also means
> that if you constructed a label by hand those partitions will not
> be present.  To see the default fake label you can run "disklabel -d wd0"
> (or whatever your disk is).  You can then run "disklabel -e" and
> paste any entries you want from the fake label into the real one.

Thanks for this clarification. I think this definitely should go
to the manual page (the 8 section one). I'll see if I can make up
a patch for that one; meanwhile, for www, I think that for
disklabel(8), the reference link should be first one (like for
fdisk). If I've understood correctly, manual pages are supposed
to be _the_ reference and FAQ just exists to help avoid some
repeatedly asked questions on the mailing lists?

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 <h3>What is disklabel(8)?</h3>

 <p>
+First be sure to check the disklabel(8) man page.
+<a href= "http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&amp;sektion=8&amp;format=html">disklabel(8)</a>
+</p>
+<p>
 Disklabels are created to allow an efficient interface between your disk
 and the disk drivers contained within the kernel. Labels hold certain
 information about your disk, like your drive geometry and information

BTW, there's some non-HTML-standard-conforming stuff in the
www tree. Is HTML conformance a goal?