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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:39:07 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Why not use partition d?
Message-ID:  <20000920233907.F327@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <xzpu2bcrcag.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <nospam-39c718630e03a34@maxim.gba.oz.au> <xzpu2bcrcag.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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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?

Tony.
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