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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!viking.mpr.ca!rosenaue From: rosenaue@mpr.ca (Dennis Rosenauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Disk drive device names Date: 8 Jul 1996 19:20:06 GMT Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B. C. Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4rrn16$eml@viking.mpr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: kant.mpr.ca I am using FreeBSD 2.1 on a machine and was relabelling the disk to modify the boot blocks, it seems that the disk drive name was also inadvertantly changed. Could anyone enlighten me as to the difference between for example wd0e and wd0s1e? They have different device numbers but after my screw-up with the disklabel and I got wd0s1e changed to wd0e (and all the other partitions too) and modified fstab to the wd0xx names from wd0sxx name everything still seems to work. I looked at the handbook, the FAQ, the man pages, and the kernel sources but I didn't seem to find an explaination for the difference between the wd0xx and wd0s1xx partitions names. I suspect that it may be related to some extra filesystem property that is new in the 2.1 or newer release. Anyone care to shed som light on this? Dennis. -- Dennis Rosenauer VE7BPE rosenaue@mpr.ca MPR Teltech Ltd. Wireless Transmission Products "For every vision there is an Burnaby, B. C. equal and opposite revision"