From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 10: 0: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D348F37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 09:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GDJ00001J89UD@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 10:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.66.11.100]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GDJ00IBPJ85YT@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 May 2001 10:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:59:44 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: disk partition / label In-reply-to: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044A5A@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> To: 'Mike Oligny' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Oligny [mailto:moligny@kanotech.com] > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:10 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: disk partition / label > > > I have several IDE disks in a 4.3 machine: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 97M 78M 11M 87% / > /dev/ad0s1f 18G 396M 16G 2% /usr > /dev/ad0s1e 19M 2.7M 15M 15% /var > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > /dev/ad2s1 55G 19G 32G 37% /usr2 > /dev/ad3s1 28G 15G 11G 57% /usr3 > /dev/ad4s1 55G 39G 12G 77% /usr4 > /dev/ad5s1e 74G 39G 30G 57% /usr5 > /dev/ad6s1 74G 29G 39G 43% /usr6 > /dev/ad7s1e 74G 1.0K 68G 0% /usr7 > > Anyone know why two of them have the 'e' at the end? Perhaps I didn't > look hard enough, but I have been unable to figure out what I did > differently when creating these.. only thing I can think of is I > created 5 & 7 after compiling the kernel myself, and the rest with a > generic kernel. The "e" indicates the name of the particular partition created in the FBSD slice and is usually the first partition created when using the Label option in /stand/sysinstall. "a" is reserved for the root file system. "b" is reserved for swap space. "c" references the entire disk and is (ASFAIK) only used by the system. I can't remember what "d" is. And finally "e" - "h" are available for normal use. "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey has a section on this that explains it in better detail. For a quick overview, I found this link by searching Google: http://studenti.ing.unipi.it/local_doc/Howto/HTML/Linux+FreeBSD3.html#3 > > I would ignore it, but I am having some weird problems with ad5s1e -- > hard write errors? Sounds bad. :) This sounds like serious hardware problems and shouldn't have anything to do with the "e". HTH, Drew > -Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message