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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:25:59 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ast@marabu.ch, mike@smith.net.au
Subject: Re: HEADS UP / disk slicing: a MAKEDEV deficiency for slices>0 ?
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>> Maybe it's time to change the line
>> 
>>     for slicepartname in s0h s1 s2 s3 s4
>> 
>> to
>> 
>>     for slicepartname in s0h s1h s2h s3h s4h
>> 
>> so that /dev/MAKEDEV makes the [a-h] /dev entries for all slices?
>
>For whatever it's worth, slice 0 isn't actually terribly useful.  8)

There is no slice s0.  "s0" is handled specially by MAKEDEV (and
eventually replaced by "") to give the compatibility slice (slice
number 0), which is very useful.

Bruce

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