Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:15:00 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? Message-ID: <20060129191500.GF94023@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <43DD1272.2010901@fastmail.fm> References: <drj1rt$1ouq$3@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <43DD1272.2010901@fastmail.fm>
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:07:30PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote:
> 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 a little out of date.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...
>From the man page for disklabel(8) (on my 4.11-STBALE laptop, or either
"disklabel" or "bsdlabel" on my 6.0-STABLE desktop at work):
# The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
`h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
entire disk.
Peace,
david
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