Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:38:06 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> Cc: Current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi,a little question about DP2. Message-ID: <200211200338.gAK3c6RO026992@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021120030748.GA74581@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <F16FX2LIt1F3p8tAcG70000ee63@hotmail.com> <20021120030748.GA74581@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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<<On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 21:07:49 -0600, Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> said: > Actually it is the 'c' slice that is generally used to indicate the whole > disk. This is still the case in 5.0. However, I am unable to tell you what > 'd' used to represent. I am also clueless on this particular detail. No, the `c' partition usually indicates the whole FreeBSD slice. A very, very long time ago (before FreeBSD grew ``slices''), the `d' partition of the first slice with type 165 was used to describe the entire disk. Utilities like `fdisk' and `sysinstall' knew about this long after it ceased being magic. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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