docs/76094: Incorrect statement about partition d

[Enrique Matías Sánchez (aka Quique)]

>Number:         76094
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Incorrect statement about partition d
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 11 11:10:26 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Enrique Matías Sánchez (aka Quique)
>Release:        5.3-RELEASE x86
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>Description:
      Section 5.3 of the handbook (disk-organization) says:
 
    To this day, some tools may operate oddly if told to work on
    partition d, so sysinstall will not normally create partition d.
 
However, when using the `automatic defaults' option from sysinstall on my system, it does create a partition d for /var, as seen on this text-screenshot:
 
                         FreeBSD Disklabel Editor                               
                                                                                 
Disk: ad0       Partition name: ad0s3   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)                    
                                                                                 
Part      Mount          Size Newfs   Part      Mount          Size Newfs       
----      -----          ---- -----   ----      -----          ---- -----       
ad0s3a    /             256MB UFS2   Y                                          
ad0s3b    swap         1006MB SWAP                                              
ad0s3d    /var          256MB UFS2+S Y                                          
ad0s3e    /tmp          256MB UFS2+S Y                                          
ad0s3f    /usr         7781MB UFS2+S Y                                          
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
The following commands are valid here (upper or lower case):                    
C = Create        D = Delete   M = Mount pt.            W = Write               
N = Newfs Opts    Q = Finish   S = Toggle SoftUpdates   Z = Custom Newfs        
T = Toggle Newfs  U = Undo     A = Auto Defaults        R = Delete+Merge        
                                                                                 
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