Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:10:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, michael <michael.copeland@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must Message-ID: <4ADA4EFB.30801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091018003100.f69bf5e4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4AD8EB8F.9010900@videotron.ca> <4AD95740.6010408@gmail.com> <4ADA3D48.70307@videotron.ca> <4ADA4279.4080006@unsane.co.uk> <20091018003100.f69bf5e4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote:
>> note there I have also used glabel on the swap (command used was glabel
>> label /dev/ad10p1)
>
> A really honest question: What does the "p" in "ad10p1"
> indicate? I always thought swap partitions are something
> like "ad10b" (an own partition right after the root
> partition a).
ad10s1b is a traditional bsdlabel(8) generated partition. (ie. it's
partition b on slice 1 of disk ad10)
ad10p1 indicates use of gpt(8) partitioning. (ie. partition 1 on disk
ad10)
Cheers,
Matthew
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