From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 09:39:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA21328 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA21323 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:38:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA04069; Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:37:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:37:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: Nadav Eiron , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > 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. This is more tradition than anything. In the BSD disklabel there are lettered slots for partitions. Historically, the layout is as follows: a root b swap c whole disk d whole slice e /var f /usr If you do 'disklabel sd0' at the end you'll see your partition table. This is mine: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 102400 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -25*) b: 204800 102400 swap # (Cyl. 25*-76*) c: 2108673 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -522*) e: 102400 307200 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 76*-101*) f: 1699073 409600 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 101*-522*) It should correspond to this layout. On my disk, d isn't there, but it is used. Don't ask me why there are 8 and I see 5. :) Hope this answers your question. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major