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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please explain the diff between wd0a and wd0s2a Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:04:16 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4vhstg$dt@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <lclee.537.021BF8A6@primenet.com> <3219267D.5F1A@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote: : 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. Not as far as I know.... wdx is the whole physical IDE disk x. wdxsy is the whole of slice (physical partition) y on IDE disk x. wdxsyz is logical partition z on slice (physical partition) y on IDE disk x. However, wdxz is is logical partition z on the *first freebsd* slice (plysical partition) on IDE disk x. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....