David Wolfskill wrote:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:07:30PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote:
Christian Baer wrote:
[...]
[2] Is there some text out there explaining these last letters? What are
the first three letters (a-c) reserved for? The handbook seems to be
a little out of date.
[...]
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...
From the man page for disklabel(8) (on my 4.11-STBALE laptop, or either
"disklabel" or "bsdlabel" on my 6.0-STABLE desktop at work):
# The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
`h'. By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
entire disk.
Peace,
david
Yup. I had just read the same thing in "man bsdlabel".
Thanks,
Patrick
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