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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
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Subject: Re: Hi,a little question about DP2.
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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


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