From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 09:09:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA12127 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA12121 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:09:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA11467; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 09:08:57 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 97 09:08:50 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. To: Doug White , Nadav Eiron Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <32E1F00A.7061@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug & Nadav, thanks! You got me the information I needed! -Sean --- On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 11:57:30 +0200 Nadav Eiron wrote: > Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > > > > Partitions names in FreeBSD are pretty simple. The device name has the > > > following structure: > > > First, the device type (for disks - wd or sd). > > > Second, the device number (0,1, etc...). > > > Third, assuming you have slices (DOS partitions) on the disk (which you > > > will have), the letter 's' (for slice) and a number (starting from 1). > > > This means that the second primary partition on the first IDE disk will > > > be called wd0s2. > > > For FreeBSD partitions, that is followed by a single later designating > > > the BSD partition within the slice, but is not used for FAT partitions. > > > > I have one follow up question on this, how does the / get a label of /dev/sd0a > > when the /usr and /var get labels of /dev/sd0s1f and /dev/sd0s1e on my single > > dedicated SCSI disk. > > For historical reasons (I guess). You can only boot from the *first* BSD > slice on a disk, so the slice number of the root partition is irrelevant > (the only root partition you can use is the one on the first BSD slice). > This is from times when BSD didn't know about slices. > > Nadav > > > > > -Sean > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sean J. Schluntz > > Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 > > PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 > > 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 > > San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ > > > > Local Time Sent: 01/17/97 17:12:39 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 01/20/97 09:08:50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------