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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. 
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:

> > > Yah, I got that.  What I was wondering is if I got the label information 
> > > correct.  I listed out the drives with what I though they would be called 
> and 
> > > I was wondering if someone could tell me if I am right or wrong.
> > 
> > Oh.  Well, I don't know anything about NT, so sorry I couldn't help you
> > there.
> 
> The NT side I'm not worried about, I know how to handle that.  I'm wondering 
> on the FreeBSD side what it will think all of the drives and partitions etc 
> will be called.  In the list you will see a 500m FAT parition, I want to be 
> able to mount that in FBSD, but if I don't know what it's called then I can't 
> mount it.
> 
> -Sean
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> 
Partitions names in FreeBSD are pretty simple. The device name has the 
following structure:
First, the device type (for disks - wd or sd).
Second, the device number (0,1, etc...).
Third, assuming you have slices (DOS partitions) on the disk (which you 
will have), the letter 's' (for slice) and a number (starting from 1). 
This means that the second primary partition on the first IDE disk will 
be called wd0s2.
For FreeBSD partitions, that is followed by a single later designating 
the BSD partition within the slice, but is not used for FAT partitions.

Note that you *can't* use NTFS partitons in FreeBSD, and that the FAT 
filesystem is shaky.

Hope this helps,
Nadav