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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    a little out of date.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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