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From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com>
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To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Date:          Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:30:51 +600 CDT
Subject:       Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? **
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Thus spake kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) (Fri, 18 Aug 1995):

                             <stuff deleted>
|  
|  2. Why 8 partitions? There is only 3 (I have 8 on sd0)
|  
                           <more stuff deleted>

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