On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson <d...@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > > <d...@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > > > >> Next I used bsdlabel > >> and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > >> > > ^ > > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. I showed it as "a:" as that's how > bsdlabel reports it when displaying the label 'bsdlabel ad6' for example.
Of course you're correct: bsdlabel shows "a:". In terminology, when refering to a partition, it's usually said "partition a" or "partition ad6s1a" instead of "partition a:". The convention "a:" - "drive letters" - is very common in DOS, as well as in other "modern" MICROS~1 products. In fact, I was just joking, as when people are asking questions about a "/home folder" or "hard discs". Terminology. :-) > I think this was part of my problem. For example, I did 'bsdlabel ad6' > instead of 'bsdlabel ad6s1'. Now I have entries such as /dev/ad6s1a and > /dev/ad8s1a after using 'bsdlabel -e <dev>'. As Wojciech mentioned, the *need* to have a slice on a disk is mostly not there when you're using BSD only - there's no problem if you don't have a slice, but just one partition covering the whole disk. Then you just operate on this partition. You can even newfs the whole disk without making a partition. In this case, the c partition - "the whole disk" - is used, and you can omit the c. If you newfs ad6, you end up with a formatted ad6 partition ad6c, which is equivalent to ad6. But that's going off-topic. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
