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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:49:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: disklabel naming
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com> types:
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Scott Nolde wrote:
> > > Does the root partition need to be on the a slice (i.e., ad0s1a)?
> > Yes.
>
> Just to clarify, it has to be on partition a. It doesn't have to be on
> slice 0. I.e., you can use ad0s2a, ad1s3a, etc.

True. Our UNIX swaps the definition of 'partition' and
'slice' which occasionally snags me in BSD.

.cr


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