From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 15:52: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E333D37B41E for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a056.otenet.gr [212.205.215.56]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g17Npp5t003577; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 01:51:52 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g17Npn122744; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 01:51:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 01:51:48 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: Jon Drukman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: curious about disk slice notation ad0s1a vs ad0a In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020207153554.00b66a20@10.10.10.1> Message-ID: <20020208015043.P22453-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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