From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 15:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08070 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv01.bigwheel.net (srv01.bigwheel.net [208.197.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08065 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@srv01.bigwheel.net) Received: (from doug@localhost) by srv01.bigwheel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19230; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808142258.PAA19230@srv01.bigwheel.net> To: proot@horton.iaces.com From: Doug Jolley Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Hard Drive Partitions Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Partitions count from 1-4. >/dev/sd0s1 OK. Thanks for the input. I hate to belabor the point; but, why then does mount show the device driver associated with my / partition as /dev/sd0a while fdisk says that my FreeBSD partition is partition 2. (Partition 1 is msdos and partitions 3 and 4 are unused (at least according to fdisk)). I would think, if anything, that /dev/sd0a would be associated with the very first partition (in my case the msdos partition). IOW, I would think that 0 would go with the very first partition, 1 with the second, etc. I'll save for another question the fact that the device driver for my /usr partition is /dev/sd02f and the device driver for my /var partition is /dev/sd02e. I have no idea how those were determined. I also am still unclear on what the device driver for my msdos partition should be. Thanks for any further input. (Again, sorry to drag this out.) ... doug _____________________________________________________________________ Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message