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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: Diskslice naming convention?
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>So why does 'disklabel automatically translated /dev/sd0 -> /dev/rsd0c'
>occur?

It doesn't.  It translates sd0 to /dev/rsd0c.  This is for convenience.
It works very well if BSD owns the disk so that there is only one slice.

Bruce