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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: disk partitons in 386BSD Date: 30 Apr 1993 12:51:06 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1rrouaINN4qo@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1826@dcsc.dla.mil> <GENE.93Apr30082115@stark.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <GENE.93Apr30082115@stark.uucp> gene@cs.sunysb.edu!stark (Gene Stark) writes: } }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 } Yes, it is explained in the new FAQ. In some detail too, as I recall. The reference is in "2.5.1 Partitions". If this section of the FAQ is unclear to the untrained reader, then let me know and I will beef it up a little more. -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX