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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:56:42 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Like to commit my diskprep
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011012150110.56224-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001031163953.B18974@hamlet.nectar.com>

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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> I always had the impression that the utilities that took a bare name
> like da0s1 did so in part to save the user from figuring out whether
> /dev/da0s1 or /dev/rda0s1 was appropriate.  That distinction is gone
> now.

It also saves them from figuring out whether the device name needs an
'a' or 'c' or 'd' partition suffix (or no suffix).

Bruce



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