-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:22:12 -0600, Scot Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote with a forced Reply-to: directing mail away from the list:
> The problem is that he only has the "c" partition, which is reserved to > specifying the entire disk. s/disk/slice/ Altho' in this case it's the same thing since the slice occupies the whole disk. > He needs to use disklabel to create a partion using one of a,b,d-h. Technically speaking, what is the difference between using the 'c' partition and creating another partition that uses the same space - other than pure convention? Quoting from man bsdlabel: "By convention, partition `c' represents the entire slice and should be of type unused, though bsdlabel does not enforce this convention." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- G. Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCFbm4K5oiGLo9AcYRAnmUAKCiFDoE0ooJVm2V7/uy+4SWJ+hCeACgskf9 ODjMsKxuDHqPnz9DIM0C3d0= =357L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
