Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:30:16 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Diskslice naming convention? Message-ID: <199509271730.LAA17738@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199509271717.DAA32286@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199509271717.DAA32286@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >I'm still lost. I *understand* that /dev/rsd0c and /dev/sd0 are > >different (one's a block device, the other is a character device), but > >how *are* they different in what parts of the disk they represent? > > /dev/rsd0c is the character device for the c partition on the first slice > on sd0 with type 0xa5 (aka the compatibility slice). /dev/sd0 is the > block device for the whole disk. This makes sense. So why does 'disklabel automatically translated /dev/sd0 -> /dev/rsd0c' occur? [ Display slices and types of a disk ] > There's the fdisk inside sysinstall and in libdisk/tst01. It recognizes > extended partitions but can't create them. But no standalone utilities (yet). I think I'm beginning to understand this much better now. However, I still a bit confuseds re: the disklabel translation stuff and the 'compatability' slices. Thanks a bunch, Nate
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