From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 15:37:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cluttered.com (w024.z064002058.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.2.58.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC6F37B419 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from orgasmotron.cluttered.com (jsd [10.10.10.3]) by cluttered.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F60C981F for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:37:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020207153554.00b66a20@10.10.10.1> X-Sender: jsd@10.10.10.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:37:28 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jon Drukman Subject: curious about disk slice notation ad0s1a vs ad0a Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whenever i install freebsd, it sets up my disk with slices named ad0s1a, ad0s1e and so on. when i go to add a second disk drive, i use /stand/sysinstall to fdisk it and then i newfs it from the shell. invariably the device name format is ad1c, ie: it's missing the s0 stuff. what is the difference? does it matter? -jsd- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message