> I'd say. Anywhere does it say this? My understanding was that 'c' > partition depicts the entire device. If this is correct, than it's not > even close to describing it as 'freely changing' it's semantics as per > kernel's mood. Artistic perhaps, but precise... not.
hey, feel free to believe whatever you want. > I don't mind not using 'c' partition for any explicit filesystems, but > I don't want to do so on some ritualistic, unsupported-by-explanations > 'fear' but rather through explicit understanding as to why, albeit > customised, examples would not work (i.e. kernel-generated default > disklabel and only 1 ffs on disk image as per previous post of mine). yeah, looking at the code is ritualistic Guess we should stop making it available.