Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:07:30 -0600 From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? Message-ID: <43DD1272.2010901@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <drj1rt$1ouq$3@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <drj1rt$1ouq$3@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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Christian Baer wrote: >[...] >[2] Is there some text out there explaining these last letters? What are > the first three letters (a-c) reserved for? The handbook seems to be > a little out of date. >[...] > > The handbook says that partition "a" is the root partition and "b" is the swap, by convention. As for "c", I don't know. Maybe it was left out on purpose so it wouldn't be confused for a "c" drive, as in "c:\" from DOS. Someboy will know... Cheers, Patrick
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