Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:27:27 -0600 From: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? Message-ID: <43DD171F.7050009@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20060129191500.GF94023@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <drj1rt$1ouq$3@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <43DD1272.2010901@fastmail.fm> <20060129191500.GF94023@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: >On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:07:30PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote: > > >>Christian Baer wrote: >> >> >> >>>[...] >>>[2] Is there some text out there explaining these last letters? What are >>> the first three letters (a-c) reserved for? The handbook seems to be >>> a little out of date. >>>[...] >>> >>> >>> >>The handbook says that partition "a" is the root partition and "b" is >>the swap, by convention. As for "c", I don't know. Maybe it was left out >>on purpose so it wouldn't be confused for a "c" drive, as in "c:\" from >>DOS. Someboy will know... >> >> > >>From the man page for disklabel(8) (on my 4.11-STBALE laptop, or either >"disklabel" or "bsdlabel" on my 6.0-STABLE desktop at work): > > # The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to > `h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the > entire disk. > >Peace, >david > > Yup. I had just read the same thing in "man bsdlabel". Thanks, Patrick
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