From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 1 11:13:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA12282 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:13:04 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12276 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:13:00 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA00822 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:12:20 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA22961 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:12:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA12703 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:11:58 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509011811.UAA12703@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fdisk in 2.1.0--SNAP is broken To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:11:57 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Don's FList drop" at Sep 1, 95 01:41:41 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 573 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Don's FList drop wrote: > > > Hmmm. My second drive is currently wd1c, due to a complicated series of > technical issues that boil down to the fact that I didn't know what the > hell I was doing when I set it up. A drive cannot be wd1c in the slices' world. It can only be wd1s3 or something like this. /dev/rwd1 is the `compat slice', and as such a synonym for the first slice bearing a FreeBSD ID (e.g. /dev/rwd1s1). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)