At 6:27 PM -0600 3/15/01, Philip Brodd wrote:
>From looking at disklabels from other NetBSD installs, it seems that 'a'
>is always used with the / partition, 'b' with swap, and 'g' with /usr.
>Are these hard and fast rules, or just conventions?  To configure sd1 as

Just conventions, providing you can boot and the kernel knows where 
to find /etc/fstab. ;-)  In other words using an 'a' partition for 
root is a good idea, but everything else can change.

I have it on reasonably good authority that you can newfs and mount 
even the 'c' partition.  A completely blank disk with no partitioning 
information should be usable as a single big partition inside NetBSD. 
I have not tried this myself.


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