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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New SCSI labeling vs. old
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219220246.823A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951219224833.9961B-100000@ivory.lm.com>

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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Peter Berger wrote:

> What am I worried about?  Well, the partitions are all in the form of:
> sd1e
> instead of:
> sd1s1e

The second is 'slice notation,' explicitly giving the slice number of the 
FreeBSD slice from the partition table.  Since your sd1 doesn't have any 
other operating systems on it there's nothing else to confuse it with so 
freeBSD drops it.  

You won't notice a difference.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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