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From: Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk>
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Subject: 2.0.5 and slices
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 22:43:17 +0100 (BST)
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How do,

Something that's been vaguely bugging me with 2.0.5 and it's
slice/partition scheme.

I've got a DOS partition on my machine, with FreeBSD as the second OS.
According to the documentation my various partitions should therefore be
of the form /dev/sd0s2? where '?' is the partition name (first SCSI
drive on the system).

And this is what I see. /usr/ for example is mounted from /dev/sd0s2e.

However, the '/' filesystem is mounted from /dev/sd0a, not /dev/sd0s2a.
It works fine, but I was wondering why the discrepancy. I haven't
spotted anything about this in the various READMEs, and was curious.

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