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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> I always had the impression that the utilities that took a bare name
> like da0s1 did so in part to save the user from figuring out whether
> /dev/da0s1 or /dev/rda0s1 was appropriate.  That distinction is gone
> now.

It also saves them from figuring out whether the device name needs an
'a' or 'c' or 'd' partition suffix (or no suffix).

Bruce



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