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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Message-ID: <1993Mar5.161923.22895@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 16:19:23 GMT
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In article <CGD.93Mar4205238@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>In article <1993Mar4.172411.28968@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>>I have had nothing but grief whenever my disktab doesn't have d and
>>c partitions defined. As soon as I defined them, voila'.
>
>"normal" bsd stuff uses the c partition to access the "whole disk" --
>disklabel needs this.
>
>386bsd also (<thwack!>) needs a d partition, something to do with DOS
>stuff... (i guess "d" is supposed to be the "whole disk" and "c"
>is "the whole part of the disk allocated to 386bsd".)
Is this true...?
I have a 170MB SCSI as my second disk, with only a and c partitions,
both of which take up the whole drive.
Everything works great.
Should I start worrying..?
ToodlepiP!
Marc 'em.
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