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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:36:40 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping]
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970110203640.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net>; from mika ruohotie on Jan 10, 1997 12:33:44 %2B0200
References:  <Mutt.19970109225450.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net>

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As mika ruohotie wrote:

> the default hands me only partitions a e f g h, can i get more of those?
> now i get around that prob by slicing the drive in two (havent yet needed
> more slices)... i dont like to play much with mknod on a production
> server... =)

Partition `d' is also available.  By now, there's only space for 8
partitions, and extending this will probably cause even more brokeness
than the recent utmp.h changes. :(

> for the record, it seems that after one has assigned the sd0s1h, the first
> assigned partition from the sd0s1 is e, then f g h and a is the last, is
> there some reason for this? first time i happened i was confused...

See the (updated) section 2.15 in the FAQ, it also explains the
historic naming conventions (in the last paragraph).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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