Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 09:37:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com> Cc: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help With Partition Naming & Setup. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970118092736.3118A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.853550168.List@journeyman>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > I have one follow up question on this, how does the / get a label of /dev/sd0a > when the /usr and /var get labels of /dev/sd0s1f and /dev/sd0s1e on my single > dedicated SCSI disk. This is more tradition than anything. In the BSD disklabel there are lettered slots for partitions. Historically, the layout is as follows: a root b swap c whole disk <not usable> d whole slice <not usable> e /var f /usr If you do 'disklabel sd0' at the end you'll see your partition table. This is mine: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 102400 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -25*) b: 204800 102400 swap # (Cyl. 25*-76*) c: 2108673 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -522*) e: 102400 307200 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 76*-101*) f: 1699073 409600 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 101*-522*) It should correspond to this layout. On my disk, d isn't there, but it is used. Don't ask me why there are 8 and I see 5. :) Hope this answers your question. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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