On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:31:45PM +0000, Voicu Liviu wrote: <snip> > > That said, assuming that you are using IDE HDDs, you device names will > > probably correspond between Linux -> FreeBSD something like: > > > > FreeBSD -> Linux > > /dev/ad0s1 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s2 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s3 -> /dev/hda1 > > /dev/ad0s4 -> /dev/hda1 > I just don't understand why does FreeBSD work like that > "/dev/ad0s_number_here". <snip> > Voicu Liviu > Hebrew University of Jerusalem > Rothberg International School > Network Support and Assistant Programmer
It's really no different from the Linux system of naming in most respects. The names/numbers are arbitrary. Does the Linux systems of /dev/hda_number_here make sense to you? If so, then /dev/ad0s_number_here should not be any stretch. The main difference being that FreeBSD generally likes to further segment a slice (partition in DOS) into separate filesystems i.e. /, /usr, /home, etc. I've heard it said that the way in which FreeBSD segments a given slice (partition in DOS) is not unlike that of how DOS handles an extended partition, although I don't know for myself how accurate this is. At any rate, it seems to me that this systems offers a good degree of flexibility, as FreeBSD will nicely fit into a single primary partition. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
