Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:33:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs oddity? Message-ID: <20021006073344.GA9756@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:29:52AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) > >disk device. > > It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority > of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even > for BSD based systems. Since when hasn't it been standard on BSD based systems? Other than recently on FreeBSD, all other BSD systems I've used, the "c" partition has been necessary when wanting to operate on the entire disk. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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