From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 19:41:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papillon.lemis.com (papillon.lemis.com [192.109.197.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07270 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 19:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00709; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980621195708.56643@papillon.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:57:08 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: robert@chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How do I label second disk slices? References: <358C4583.AC5EF174@chalmers.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <358C4583.AC5EF174@chalmers.com.au>; from Robert Chalmers on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 09:28:03AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 June 1998 at 9:28:03 +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: > If my primary disk slices are a,b,c,d,e,f, do I make my second disk slices > g,h,i,j,k and so on? No. Each disk has up to eight slices called a to h. Your first IDE disk is wd0, the second wd1, so you have sixteen devices wd0a to wd0h and wd1a to wd1h. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message