From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 08:14:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39D316A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:14:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFE443D41 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 08:14:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i818ENVj092718 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:14:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i818ENfO092717; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:14:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:14:23 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: "H. Sandring" Message-ID: <20040901081423.GB92271@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "H. Sandring" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <004b01c48fed$5198dc50$0401a8c0@kojo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004b01c48fed$5198dc50$0401a8c0@kojo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:14:23 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is there no d partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:14:28 -0000 --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:31:22PM +0800, H. Sandring wrote: > I am wondering why there is never a "d" partition showing up in my > disklabels (e.g. ad0s1d). > Is there something special about it? No. Nothing special about the 'd' partition. The special partitions are 'a' -- assumed to contain the root filesystem, 'b' -- assumed to be a swap partition and 'c' -- not used actively, but a synonym for the whole slice surface. The specialness of 'c' is no longer necessary, and hasn't been so for some years since the reorganisation of disk devices to the /dev/da0s1a style, where /dev/da0s1 would do the job. However so much software assumes that 'c' is the whole slice that it's impossible to eliminate entirely. 'd' would be the last partition allocated by sysinstall (I think), after 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h' -- maybe you just haven't been creating partitions per disk to see them. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBNYTfiD657aJF7eIRAsICAJkBgLCYA6JWJVqW7Qy+s+7/U/340ACgqDZW 7KHlZkMen1XkoYJD4iNKJ4s= =aWPG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY--