Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:19:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not use partition d? Message-ID: <20000922111902.L66887@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000921102552.A2133@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:25:52AM %2B0100 References: <nospam-39c718630e03a34@maxim.gba.oz.au> <xzpu2bcrcag.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000920233907.F327@hand.dotat.at> <20000921102552.A2133@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thursday, 21 September 2000 at 10:25:52 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:39:07PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: >> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote: >>> Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> writes: >>>> I recently saw a statement on -hackers which asserted that one >>>> should not use partition d on FreeBSD disks "for historical >>>> reasons". >>> >>> There is no longer any reason for that, unless you plan to mount the >>> disk on a very old BSD system. >> >> What did they use partition d for? > > As I recall, partition c was used when you wanted to reference the > whole disk. Partition d was that part of the disk that had BSD > filesystems on it. I could very well be wrong though. I think it was the other way round. That's how NetBSD still does it, anyway. But yes, there's no reason not to use d any more. There's also very seldom any reason to use it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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