From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 17:16:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA11791 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns.pinpt.com (dns.pinpt.com [205.179.195.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA11784 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from journeyman (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by dns.pinpt.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA03599; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:15:33 -0800 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 17:12:39 Pacific Standard Time From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. To: "Sean J. Schluntz" , Nadav Eiron Cc: Doug White , questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. I have one follow up question on this, how does the / get a label of /dev/sd0a when the /usr and /var get labels of /dev/sd0s1f and /dev/sd0s1e on my single dedicated SCSI disk. -Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean J. Schluntz 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 17:12:39 ----------------------------------------------------------------------