From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 14:15:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35F3106566C for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fwd@gothschlampen.com) Received: from vs.gothschlampen.com (vs.gothschlampen.com [85.93.11.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C4E8FC1F for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vs.gothschlampen.com (Postfix, from userid 667) id 445961D3518; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:53:17 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091117135317.GA5659@gothschlampen.com> References: <20091116120014.A477010656F8@hub.freebsd.org> <20091117022555.Y65262@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20091116180126.GA48289@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20091117144515.4bc739ee.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091117144515.4bc739ee.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: fwd@gothschlampen.com (tk) Subject: Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:46 -0000 On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > As for 'd' vs 'e', sometime a long time and many generations ago there > > was a convention of reserving 'd' for something. I don't remember what > > it was. It was pre FreeBSD 3 and pre 1997 and maybe even pre any FreeBSD > > and applied in some earlier Unix-en before the court cases, but not after. > > That old convention accounts for documentation starting with using 'e' for > > extra partitions and skipping 'd'. But, whatever that old convention > > was, it has not been used for so long that it is meaningless nowdays > > and 'd' can be used for whatever extra partition you want. > > You say it: I KNEW that there was something someone had > on his mind when reserving 'd' for something special... > but WHAT it exactly was, I don't know. If I remember correctly, NetBSD still uses (or did so until a few years ago) the 'd' partition to represent the whole disk, while 'c' is used in the usual way to represent the whole slice. Regards Thomas