Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:38:00 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. Message-ID: <Chameleon.853522843.List@journeyman> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970117100659.27966A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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> > 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. > > > 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. Great! That was what I needed, I just wanted to be sure that when I built this thing I would have a clue where I had put it ;) Thanks for your help. > Note that you *can't* use NTFS partitons in FreeBSD, and that the FAT > filesystem is shaky. Yah, I know about the NTFS. And the shaky FAT is why I made it only 500megs, I have heard that as long as you keep it =<500m that there are no problems with the FAT filesystem under FreeBSD. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz <schluntz@pinpt.com> Manager, Support Services ph. 408.997.6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation fx. 408.323.2300 6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 100 San Jose, CA. 95120 http://www.pinpt.com/ Local Time Sent: 01/17/97 09:38:00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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