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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Date: 5 Mar 93 23:18:35
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of Fri, 5 Mar 1993 16:19:23 GMT
In article <1993Mar5.161923.22895@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:
>I have a 170MB SCSI as my second disk, with only a and c partitions,
>both of which take up the whole drive.
umm, i *think* that if you're not running w/DOS partitioning, you
don't need to set 'd' to anything meaningful, but you shouldn't actively
*use* it, either...
i'm not entirely sure; i set it to be my entire disk, and have
never coexisted w/dos...
chris
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