On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: > >On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > >> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Kargl w > >> > rites: > >> > >root[208] cdcontrol play > >> > >cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c > >> > >cdcontrol: /dev/cd0cc: No such file or directory > >> > > > >> > >Why is an extra "c" appended to cd0c? > > > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) > >disk device. > > It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority > of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even > for BSD based systems.
It is a standard convention in FreeBSD-4, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Except the partition letter is actually "d" in NetBSD and OpenBSD for i386's and a few other arches. > It is also illogical, counter-intuitive and prone to mistakes. That may be, but changing it without even preparing for the change breaks POLA. This consideration prevented me from axing partitions soon after I implemented slices. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
