Have the device names for hard discs been changed?

[Patrick Bowen]

David Wolfskill wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:07:30PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote:
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>>Christian Baer wrote:
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>>>[...]
>>>[2] Is there some text out there explaining these last letters? What are
>>>  the first three letters (a-c) reserved for? The handbook seems to be
>>>  a little out of date.
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>The handbook says that partition "a" is the root partition and "b" is 
>>the swap, by convention. As for "c", I don't know. Maybe it was left out 
>>on purpose so it wouldn't be confused for a "c" drive, as in "c:\" from 
>>DOS. Someboy will know...
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>>From the man page for disklabel(8) (on my 4.11-STBALE laptop, or either
>"disklabel" or "bsdlabel" on my 6.0-STABLE desktop at work):
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>     #       The partition identifier is a single letter in the range `a' to
>             `h'.  By convention, partition `c' is reserved to describe the
>             entire disk.
>
>Peace,
>david
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Yup. I had just read the same thing in "man bsdlabel".

Thanks,
Patrick