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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Please explain the diff between wd0a and wd0s2a Message-ID: <nxeIbgm@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <lclee.537.021BF8A6@primenet.com> <3219267D.5F1A@www.play-hookey.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:20:27 UTC Lines: 22 Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >As for the nomenclature, s1, s2, etc refer to the specific slice. Your >Win95 slice is therefore wd0s1, and your FreeBSD slice is wd0s2. Entries >without a slice designation refer to the drive as a whole, not a single >slice (wd0c is the whole darn drive). If you're seeing your / partition >as wd0a instead of wd0s2a, I would guess that you have done some major >stomping on that drive. It may now be time for that fdisk treatment I >mentioned. Huh?!?! wd0a refers to the first partition within the first FreeBSD slice on the drive. wd0s1a refers to the first partition within slice 1. That's the only difference. The kernel mounts [boot drive]a as it's root parition. Since the boot drive is wd0, it mounts wd0a as root. That's all. -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | "The difference between patriots N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | and traitors is the difference +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | between winners and losers." URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |