Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:15 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, David Allen <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli Message-ID: <20091117144515.4bc739ee.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091116180126.GA48289@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20091116120014.A477010656F8@hub.freebsd.org> <20091117022555.Y65262@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20091116180126.GA48289@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > I tend to use 'a' if > the drive will be entirely one slice and one partition used for some > special work or scratch space, but stick with 'd..h' if there will be > more than one partition and just leave 'a' alone - for no other > reason than habit. And I tend to omit the slice at all. :-) # newfs -U /dev/ad1 # mount /dev/ad1 /somewhere This is so easy because I very often use sysinstall for initializing the disk when installing, but any further disk adding is done via CLI as shown above, because it's much simpler - and I didn't see any reason to create a slice - even if I wanted to have more than one partition, which I often don't want. > As for 'd' vs 'e', sometime a long time and many generations ago there > was a convention of reserving 'd' for something. I don't remember what > it was. It was pre FreeBSD 3 and pre 1997 and maybe even pre any FreeBSD > and applied in some earlier Unix-en before the court cases, but not after. > That old convention accounts for documentation starting with using 'e' for > extra partitions and skipping 'd'. But, whatever that old convention > was, it has not been used for so long that it is meaningless nowdays > and 'd' can be used for whatever extra partition you want. You say it: I KNEW that there was something someone had on his mind when reserving 'd' for something special... but WHAT it exactly was, I don't know. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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