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From: Larry Vaden <larry.vaden@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed?
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On 1/29/06, Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> >
> The handbook says that partition "a" is the root partition and "b" is
> the swap, by convention. As for "c", I don't know. Maybe it was left out
> on purpose so it wouldn't be confused for a "c" drive, as in "c:\" from
> DOS. Someboy will know...
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
>

IIRC "c" is the full extent of the drive.

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