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Date:      Sun, 16 Jun 2002 09:15:22 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'c' partition
Message-ID:  <20020615234522.GD65995@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200206152338.AAA21285@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
References:  <200206152338.AAA21285@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>

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On Sunday, 16 June 2002 at  0:38:44 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> Is it still necessary to have the 'c' partition cover the whole disk
> or slice, or does the existence of the disk and slice devices make
> that obsolete?

I'm pretty sure that there are still programs which assume that c is
the whole disk.  You could try using it and see what happens.  Don't
do it with data you want to keep.

Greg
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