On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> 	What does 'c' end up being used for on i386 that could not be
> 	equally well done with a 'whole disk' 'c'?

How about raw reads/writes?  Wouldn't you want bounds checking which I
assume is available through the disklabeling?  I'm not the best for
examples, but possibly for backing up nonBSD partitions from BSD?

					- Erich