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>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why not use partition d? Message-ID: <20000921102552.A2133@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20000920233907.F327@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:39:07PM %2B0000 References: <nospam-39c718630e03a34@maxim.gba.oz.au> <xzpu2bcrcag.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000920233907.F327@hand.dotat.at>
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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 -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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