why is there no d partition

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Sep 1 07:48:35 PDT 2004


> 
> Dear list,
>  
> I am wondering why there is never a "d" partition showing up in my
> disklabels (e.g. ad0s1d).
> Is there something special about it?

There is something out of history, but I don't remember
what it was.  
Maybe someone else remembers what d was reserved for, way back.

////jerry

>  
> TIA
>  
> Zheyu
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