Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 01:51:48 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: curious about disk slice notation ad0s1a vs ad0a Message-ID: <20020208015043.P22453-100000@hades> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020207153554.00b66a20@10.10.10.1>
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Jon Drukman wrote: > 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? You will probably find in the following article a wealth of useful information: Formatting media for use with FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ Cheers, -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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