> There are two meanings of `raw' as applied to disk partitions. Ah, I see. Thanks.
> This is `raw' in that it bypasses partitioning > allowing access to the whole disk regardless of partitioning. It looks that I remember incorrectly what ws@ taught me back in the days how the ``full disc'' partition works. What I remember is that (let's assume sparc) partition ``c'' was actually present in the disklabel and it was just by convention that one would allocate that 0-$. The only magic I thought there was is that in case the kernel can't find a disklabel, it would invent one having a single ``c'' partition spanning the whole disc. But then, due to the 32-bit- limitation of the disklabel structure, it couldn't make a ``c'' partition spanning 3TB. Is my memory wrong? Has that been changed?
