From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 22:05:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01302 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.111]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01295 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00838; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:21 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Berger cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New SCSI labeling vs. old In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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