On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:57:33 +1000 (EST) Damien Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Sebastian Rother wrote: > > > > it is not a blanket thing - not all archs use it. the disklabel stuff > > > well, we expect people to know how to use disklabel anyway. if they > > > don;t, they can read the man page. > > > > The method I descriped is NOT mentioned anywhere. > > People have to assume that softraid just works with WHOLE disks. > > People who _don't understand disklabel_ assume that softraid just works > with whole disks. It is quite clear what is going on if you get disklabel. > > -d Might be logical to you and me. But the average admin or somebody who's not a permanent openbsd user might NOT figure it out and he might NOT try it out. It's nothing about you and me or many others. I just say I got serval mails during the years HOW to do it exactly. And the latest arrived yesterday and this was the day I thought the openbsd manpage lacks clarity. *cut the beginning* -- Also ich wuerde ganz gerne mal eine Partition auf meinem Rechner verschluesseln. Jetzt habe ich in ein/zwei Tutorials und die manpages f. softraid geschaut und habe den Eindruck, dass nur komplette Platten mit Softraid verschluesselt werden koennen... jetzt bin ich ein wenig verunsichert. Ist es denn moeglich mit disklabel eine einzige Partition fuer s.c. zu definieren? Kannst du mich evtl. noch auf andere manpages/Webseiten/Tutorials verweisen, oder ggf. mal ganz grob umreissen, wie ich beim Einrichten solch einer Partition vorgehen sollte?! *cut the end* -- So i give a fuck about your oppinion: It AINT clear for the normal OpenBSD user. But nobody needs the "normal" OpenBSD user... right? Kind regards, Sebastian
