From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 0:33:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34B937B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5114243E6A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g967XjFX009785; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g967XjOY009784; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs oddity? Message-ID: <20021006073344.GA9756@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:29:52AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) > >disk device. > > It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority > of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even > for BSD based systems. Since when hasn't it been standard on BSD based systems? Other than recently on FreeBSD, all other BSD systems I've used, the "c" partition has been necessary when wanting to operate on the entire disk. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message