Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27794; Wed, 20 Dec 95 01:50:19 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05428; Wed, 20 Dec 95 01:50:19 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA18582; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 01:50:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01353 Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01302 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.111]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01295 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00838; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:21 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 22:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Berger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New SCSI labeling vs. old In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Peter Berger wrote: > What am I worried about? Well, the partitions are all in the form of: > sd1e > instead of: > sd1s1e The second is 'slice notation,' explicitly giving the slice number of the FreeBSD slice from the partition table. Since your sd1 doesn't have any other operating systems on it there's nothing else to confuse it with so freeBSD drops it. You won't notice a difference. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major