Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk (Nik Clayton) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5 and slices Message-ID: <199508102243.PAA04038@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <18296.9508102143@mishmash.brunel.ac.uk> from "Nik Clayton" at Aug 10, 95 10:43:17 pm
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> I've got a DOS partition on my machine, with FreeBSD as the second OS. > According to the documentation my various partitions should therefore be > of the form /dev/sd0s2? where '?' is the partition name (first SCSI > drive on the system). > > And this is what I see. /usr/ for example is mounted from /dev/sd0s2e. > > However, the '/' filesystem is mounted from /dev/sd0a, not /dev/sd0s2a. > It works fine, but I was wondering why the discrepancy. I haven't > spotted anything about this in the various READMEs, and was curious. This is for compatibility with before-the-slice-scheme programs. There's a README somewhere when you run /stand/sysinstall that explains all this... it's kindof confusing. -Archie
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