From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 11:24:19 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 6A9D037B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:24:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hun.org (hun.org [216.190.27.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1831043E7B for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from attila@hun.org) Received: by hun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8EA9E57AFF; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:24:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <20021006182417.mRnG20744@hun.org> From: Daniel Flickinger X-Mailer: AttilaMail with XEmacs & Postfix on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-Ballistic: N 37.218497 W 113.614979 X-Address: 31 N 700 E, St George UT 84770-3028 X-Squawk: (435) 680-0750 X-No-Archive: yes In-Reply-To: <20021006060625.K30311-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20021006073344.GA9756@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: devfs oddity? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="text" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Listmgr: lists@hun.org To: undisclosed-recipients: ; 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 'c' partition as the whole disk existed in the pre-release tapes of Berkeley BSD 4.0 and continued on from there. I think I still have the whole set of 1600bpi 9T tapes.... bad144 also originated at that time to get away from V7's and V32's assumption of perfect media which was a nightmare, particularly on DEC media of the late 70s, early 80s. DEC charged more than double for media without errors and the warranty was 10 seconds or 10 feet which ever came first (just like used cars). Sent: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:45 -0700 by David O'Brien + 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