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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:57:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ]" <tholmes@thebiz.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk slices
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112051556110.47020-100000@staff.noc.thebiz.net>
In-Reply-To: <15374.34369.492419.52249@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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alrighty then, I guess I'm just loosing my mind :)  I will double check my
4.3->4.4 box and if the df shows the slice I will grab a screen shot!

Thanks guys, you rule!



On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> Thomas P. Holmes [ Systems ] writes:
>  > Yes my box boots and I was able to recompile the kernel.
>  > 
>  > The df through me when I saw
>  > 
>  > da0a
>  > da0e 
>  > 
>  > and not
>  > 
>  > da0s1a
>  > da0s1e
>  > 
>  > 
> 
> The alpha port doesn't use slices (fdisk partitions) because the SRM
> console doesn't understand them & it cannot boot from them.  The alpha
> port has never used slices.
> 
> Drew
> 
> 

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