From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 16:51:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7487037B6A2 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5419881490; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:15:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:15:22 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Richard Tobin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'c' partition Message-ID: <20020615234522.GD65995@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200206152338.AAA21285@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206152338.AAA21285@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Sunday, 16 June 2002 at 0:38:44 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: > Is it still necessary to have the 'c' partition cover the whole disk > or slice, or does the existence of the disk and slice devices make > that obsolete? I'm pretty sure that there are still programs which assume that c is the whole disk. You could try using it and see what happens. Don't do it with data you want to keep. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message