From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 16 11:21:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA15286 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:21:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA15279 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA14556; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:21:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id UAA01746; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:17:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971016201719.RI62518@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:17:19 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Subject: Re: damn, damn, damn ... getting confused here. References: <19971016083755.EY27853@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from David E. Cross on Oct 16, 1997 11:27:16 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David E. Cross wrote: > While we are on the subject... what is the difference between: > /dev/wcd0a > /dev/wcd0c There are only internal differences: the `c' partition is faked at some generic level, while the `a' partition is made the same via a dummy internal disklabel. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)