From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 14:35:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7901B37B401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0LMZMs01070; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:35:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f0LMXVs03655; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:33:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200101212233.f0LMXVs03655@billy-club.village.org> To: Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries? Cc: Shawn Barnhart , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:29:09 EST." References: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:33:31 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Matt Heckaman writes: : Brand new system, installed 3 days ago, 4.2-RELEASE. Creating the : partition on the newly sliced da1 via sysinstall put it on "e". 'e' is the first slice that sysinstall uses. Since you wanted the whole disk, it gave you the whole disk as 'e'. Nothing magical about it. 'c' being the whole disk *IS* magical. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message