On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:32 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> I don't know about all you ask, but the 'c' partition should always
> be there and be set to identify the whole slice eg start at 0 and
> the size be the size of the slice.   The system uses it to identify

its a damn shame that this is still the case.  defeats / undermines the
whole purpose of /dev/[as][d##][s#][a-z]

/dev/[as][d##][s#] alone can represent entire BIOS partitions
/dev/[as][d##] alone can represent entire disk

Not sure why we still need a 'c' slice for legacy ?!

-- 
Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.




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