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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!stark.UUCP!gene From: gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: disk partitons in 386BSD Date: 30 Apr 93 08:21:15 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 19 Message-ID: <GENE.93Apr30082115@stark.uucp> References: <1826@dcsc.dla.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: stark.uucp In-reply-to: cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil's message of 28 Apr 93 16:05:58 GMT In article <1826@dcsc.dla.mil> cp01395@dcsc.dla.mil (Duane L. Rezac) writes: > Up to this point, I have had no problems with the filesystem. > Now I want to add /dev/wd1d as /ftp for an anon ftp directory structure > when I mount /dev/wd1d on /ftp , it shows all the data from /dev/wd1a (/p). The wd driver interprets the "d" partition specially as "the whole BSD area". Very embarrassing results can occur if the "d" "partition" is mounted at the same time as another normal partition, and attempts to do this should produce warning messages on the console. This has been explained a number of times here, is it in the FAQ? For more information, have a look at /sys/i386/isa/wd.c - Gene Stark -- stark@cs.sunysb.edu