On Fri, 25 May 2007 15:41:28 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the
> > fstab or df?
>
because df shows mounted disks, and fstab what to mount. neither of them affect
b (usually swap) or c (as per Olivier below).
you can see b by using the right command, for example, swapinfo:
$ swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/ad0s1b.eli 4194304 0 4194304 0%
( mine has .eli @ the end because it's an encrypted swap device).
> Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice.
>
> That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at
> least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice.
indeed :) gstat shows them anyway because they are part of the GEOM subsys - u
just need the right tool to see them.
Regards,
B
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