On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:58:50AM -0600, FreeBSD wrote:
>
> The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ...
> disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't.
>
> I've never been a fan of this. May I make a recommendation (flame away,
> boys): redo disklabel while we're at it. it seems counter-intuitive to
> me, as well as wasteful, to make partition "c" the whole disk and skip "d"
> altogether. IMHO, "da0s1" should refer to the whole disk, "da0s1a" should
> be the first physical partition, "da0s1b" the second partition, etc. down
> to "h". This gives us 8 partitions of any type: swap or FS. This is not
> ambiguous, the "swapon" would detect in the label p_fstype and if it were
> not equal to FS_SWAP it wouldn't try to swap-mount it. Same goes for any
> FS mount, if p_fstype != FS_BSDFFS or whatnot, it wouldn't allow mounting
> of that FS.
>
I agree fully. Anybody know why it was done as it currently is originally?
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Erik Trulsson
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