On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Rob Deker wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Next, I think /dev/sd0d is reserved for the whole disk, so change sd0d
> > to sd0e or f in your fstab.
> > 
> is this a new thing in 1.3? I thought that c was reserved traditionally
> for the entire disk...

On the i386 port, the c partition is the entire netbsd part of the disk,
and the d partition is the whole disk.  On (most of the) other ports, the
c partition is the whole disk.

Up until just before 1.3_ALPHA was frozen, the d partition on the mac68k
port often ended up being the SCSIManager4.3 driver partition.  Allen made
a change at the last minute to ignore that (since there's precious little
we could ever _do_ with it) in order get get one more useable partition.

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