From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 31 09:07:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09969 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:07:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.88.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09963 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from bsdbob@localhost) by seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13179; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:01:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdbob) From: "Robert D. Keys" Message-Id: <199808311601.MAA13179@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Looking for logic and rationale of fs partition conventions. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:01:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (Robert D. Keys) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can anyone fill me in (and probably others too), as to the logic and rationale of the fs partition naming conventions of BSD from 4.3, Tahoe, Reno, 4.4, 4.4-Lite, and FreeBSD? I understand ``a'' is the root partition, ``b'' the swap partition, and ``c'' the entire disk. After that, d/e/f/g/h sort of go every which way, with no particular rhyme or reason. ``g'' is often used for the remaining /usr partition, but there does not seem to be much clear reasoning as to why. I would like to understand that rhyme and reason. Also, what is the convention of fs splitting between drives? The table in the 4.4SMM (sec. 2.5.2) suggests some possiblities, but is there any other rationale behind the choices? How things might be affected loadwise on singleuser workstations vs heavy servers, is probably very different. I would like to understand more of the reasoning of these conventions. Thanks Bob Keys To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message