Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:30:51 +600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? ** Message-ID: <18F63BC5CF5@bldg1.croute.com>
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Thus spake kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) (Fri, 18 Aug 1995):
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| 2. Why 8 partitions? There is only 3 (I have 8 on sd0)
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At least in the SunOS sphere (pretty BSD-oriented itself, and FreeBSD has
borrowed some features in other areas)..
'a' is typically /,
'b' is swap,
'c' is defined as characteristics for the entire disk (and shouldn't be
assigned),
'g' and 'h' are usually /usr (or /usr/local) and /home respectively for a
single-disk system.
'a' through 'h' yields 8 partitions.
'd' through 'f' can be used I suppose, but for historical reasons often
aren't, though Solaris differs (as do their device names).
hth,
larry
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