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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:14:18 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:09:12PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:33:07 -0700 (PDT), Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>=
 said:
>=20
> >   disk, as I have always thought for the past seven years.  Also note t=
hat
> >   the 'd' partition is no longer special, but that lots of software,
> >   including sysinstall, believes that it still is.
>=20
> Actually, sysinstall doesn't believe that `d' is special, it just
> starts allocating partitions at `e'.  If you create enough partitions
> it will wrap back around.  (Rather annoying but I can live with it.)

It's the ..._DWIM() function in libdisk that's actually responsible for
this, according to phk (he should know, he wrote it) :-)

N
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
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