Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:36:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970110203640.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net>; from mika ruohotie on Jan 10, 1997 12:33:44 %2B0200 References: <Mutt.19970109225450.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701101033.MAA27219@shadows.aeon.net>
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As mika ruohotie wrote: > the default hands me only partitions a e f g h, can i get more of those? > now i get around that prob by slicing the drive in two (havent yet needed > more slices)... i dont like to play much with mknod on a production > server... =) Partition `d' is also available. By now, there's only space for 8 partitions, and extending this will probably cause even more brokeness than the recent utmp.h changes. :( > for the record, it seems that after one has assigned the sd0s1h, the first > assigned partition from the sd0s1 is e, then f g h and a is the last, is > there some reason for this? first time i happened i was confused... See the (updated) section 2.15 in the FAQ, it also explains the historic naming conventions (in the last paragraph). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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