I have been adding my FAT partition to my NetBSD disklabel so that I could
access it, by switching between two virtual consoles and copying the sector
values from "fdisk" output into the disklabel. slow =/

My friend uses FreeBSD on occasion, and he says there's a device used to
refer directly to a partition as defined in the MBR, without having to add
it in the disklabel, like

/dev/adXsN

where X is the drive, 0 indexed, and N is the partition, also 0-indexed

so /dev/ad2s0 would be the first partition of the third drive

and in Linux it would be

/dev/hdXnS

where X refers to drive, n to partition, and S the slice if applicable, such
as hda1 or hdc1a

Is there a similar thing in NetBSD? It's the only OS I've ever used which
doesn't have an apparent method for accessing drives by
drive/partition/slice; instead, it's just drive/slice

Just wondering because sometimes I have 4 partitions for 4 different
operating systems and it would be nice to be able to access them more easily

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