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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:25:52 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>,
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Subject: Re: Why not use partition d?
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:39:07PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> >Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> writes:
> >> I recently saw a statement on -hackers which asserted that one
> >> should not use partition d on FreeBSD disks "for historical
> >> reasons".
> >
> >There is no longer any reason for that, unless you plan to mount the
> >disk on a very old BSD system.
> 
> What did they use partition d for?

As I recall, partition c was used when you wanted to reference the whole
disk.  Partition d was that part of the disk that had BSD filesystems on
it.  I could very well be wrong though.

N
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