From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 17:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06218 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:22:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06207 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA12734; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:20:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980902192055.A12622@emsphone.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:20:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brett Glass , sab@seanet.com Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" References: <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199808021131.FAA12204@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199809021901.MAA21131@two.sabami.seaslug.org> <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <19980902175652.A11500@emsphone.com> <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org>; from "Brett Glass" on Wed Sep 2 18:02:21 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 02), Brett Glass said: > At 05:56 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote > >+--------+-----------------------------------------------------+ > >| C: | extended partition | > >+--------+- - - - + - - - -+- - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ > > | D: | E: | F: | extended part. | > > +--------------------------+ - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ > > | G: | H: | I: | > > +--------------------------+ > > > >In your naming scheme, what would drive 'G:' be? wd1s2da ? > > DOS logical drives are not slices! They're the equivalent of > disklabel partitions and should have letters at the end. What would you like the dos drive 'G:' named in your naming scheme? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message