Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:29:40 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Gabriel Linder <linder@jeuxvideo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disklabel, partition d is usable or not ? Message-ID: <20070718122940.GA42311@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <469DEEF2.9060205@jeuxvideo.com> References: <469DEEF2.9060205@jeuxvideo.com>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:44:02PM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: > Hi, >=20 > This may sound as a dumb question, but during my 6.2-RELEASE (i386) setup= I=20 > notice the following in the handbook : > > Remember [...] that partitions b, c, and d have conventional meanings= =20 > that you should adhere to. >=20 > But the partition d is used by sysinstall (with both automatic defaults a= nd=20 > manual setup), maybe this entry should be fixed if d has no more special= =20 > meaning ? I think you're right. The 'b' partition is usually used for swap space, while the 'c' partition represents the whole disk. The 'd' partition can be used normally, AFAIK. Additionally, only the 'a' partition can be booted from, IIRC. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGnge0EnfvsMMhpyURApM7AJ47IwTT4jCdim2i3884aNaxWV+wVACfcR14 IUP9Gf+BpIkgBZu6CSy1I9M= =Gs0O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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