On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:43:21PM +0100, Steven Smith wrote: > > /dev/hda1 corresponds to FreeBSDs /dev/ad0s1. > > What does Linux call, for example, /dev/ad0s1a? > > Usually, Linux just shoves stuff in BSD-style slice tables on the end > of the partition table. In my case, ad0s4a is hda11, ad0s4b hda12, > and so on. > > For recent 2.4 kernels, dmesg should have a line of the form: > > p4: <bsd: p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 p16 >
Thanks! Yes, this is the FreeBSD-slice hda1: <bsd: hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 > and this is the DragonFly-slice hda2: <bsd: hda14 hda15 hda16 hda17 > ..strange numbering, shouldn't it look like this? hda2: <bsd: hda20 hda21 hda22 hda23 > One thing I found particularly interesting is that _both_ /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda14 seem to represent /dev/ad0s2a, and I can even mount them both at the same time! =/ -- Fredrik Eriksson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
