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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA>,
	Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Limit on the number of disklabel entries?
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:33:31PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101211713320.53569-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> Matt Heckaman writes:
> : Brand new system, installed 3 days ago, 4.2-RELEASE. Creating the
> : partition on the newly sliced da1 via sysinstall put it on "e".
> 
> 'e' is the first slice that sysinstall uses.  Since you wanted the
> whole disk, it gave you the whole disk as 'e'.  Nothing magical about
> it.  'c' being the whole disk *IS* magical.

Does 'c' include the disklabel itself, and the boot blocks?

Joe


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