From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 10:19:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA27152 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 10:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA27147 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 10:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bsdcur@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.4/8.8.3) id UAA09453; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:15:11 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199701111815.UAA09453@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:15:11 +0200 (EET) Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Jan 10, 97 08:36:40 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As mika ruohotie wrote: > > the default hands me only partitions a e f g h, can i get more of those? > 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. :( ugh, ok... i've never dared to use the d, coz i remember having some probs with that ages ago... like with version 1.0 i think... =) anyway, so i was doing the Right Thing(tm) when i started to slice it for more partitions around... > > 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). aaah, thanx... i knew that... (ofcourse i've read the faq someday) :p > cheers, J"org mickey