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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
To:        Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk (Nik Clayton)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.0.5 and slices
Message-ID:  <199508102243.PAA04038@bubba.tribe.com>
In-Reply-To: <18296.9508102143@mishmash.brunel.ac.uk> from "Nik Clayton" at Aug 10, 95 10:43:17 pm

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> 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.

This is for compatibility with before-the-slice-scheme programs.

There's a README somewhere when you run /stand/sysinstall that
explains all this... it's kindof confusing.

-Archie




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