From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 21 18:49:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2FD37B422; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8M1n2W34624; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:19:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:19:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton Cc: Tony Finch , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Greg Black , FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Why not use partition d? Message-ID: <20000922111902.L66887@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000920233907.F327@hand.dotat.at> <20000921102552.A2133@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000921102552.A2133@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:25:52AM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 wrote: >>> Greg Black 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