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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: disc labels on 4.3 (vax)
Keywords: disc label tahoe vax 4.3bsd
Message-ID: <1372@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 23:31:02 GMT
References: <498@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <498@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, aw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Andrew Weeks) writes:
> We have recently received a new 4.3 Vax release from MtXinu, which
> contains a disk-labelling system (probably that from 4.3-tahoe).
> [...] but then the label must take up some space, where can it get it
> except at the expense of files?

The label won't take more than fifty or a hundred bytes, and for
something that small there's lots of room floating around, like at the
end of the superblock, or maybe inode 0 or 1....

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