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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: I can't mount DOS (on sd0) from my BSD sd1 disk! Date: 12 Jun 1994 14:12:46 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2tf54u$3bd@fw.novatel.ca> References: <mldCr0qAD.1G1@netcom.com> <2t3lno$i8p@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <2t4alb$41d@s069.infonet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Dave Burgess (burgess@s069.infonet.net) wrote: : In article <2t3lno$i8p@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, : James Miller <millerj@sulaco.OES.ORST.EDU> wrote: : In SysV, when you want to talk to the entire, unlabeled drive, you can : use /dev/sd0. This is equivalent to our /dev/sd0d or /dev/sd0c : (depending on whether you want to talk to the entire (unlabelled) : drive, or the the BSD portion only). Dave; I feel I should remind everyone that only in 386bsd, FreeBSD, and NetBSD/i386 does /dev/[ws]d0d have special meaning and it is really only of value if you actually have a DOS partition-table on your disk. Otherwise; it is just a regular partition like all the others. This is a horrible Jolitzism that I've wanted to get rid of for a long time but since I've lost interest in the i386 port; well you know.... fwiw: A NetBSD/i386 machine: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 21173 13958 5097 73% / /dev/sd0d 85977 7605 69774 10% /var /dev/sd0e 21173 0 19055 0% /tmp /dev/sd0g 194885 78982 96414 45% /usr /dev/sd0f 775576 198047 577528 26% /usr/spool/news /dev/sd0h 743437 253420 415673 38% /home kernfs 2 2 0 100% /kern fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev/fd proc 2 2 0 100% /proc -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Commnications Ltd. hpeyerl@fsa.ca | <nothing I say matters anyway> "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."