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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:18:50 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I label second disk slices?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980622121053.28872N-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <358C4583.AC5EF174@chalmers.com.au>

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Drives in UNIX don't have letters for names.

wd0 = Primary Master IDE Drive
wd1 = Primary Slave IDE Drive

wd0s1 = First slice on wd0
wd1s2 = Second slice on wd1

wd0s1a = First partition on wd0s1  (usually mounted to /)

etc...

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> If my primary disk slices are a,b,c,d,e,f, do I make my second disk slices
> g,h,i,j,k and so on?
> 
> robert
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