In message <v67ltvlvl3.fsf@kechara.flame.org>, Michael Graff writes:
>You're describing FreeBSD's "slices" where each slice is a BIOS
>partition, I believe.

Perhaps, yeah.

>So, the notation would be sd0s3a for BSD partition a from "slice" 3...

That sounds about right.  So, 'sd0a' would imply 'slice 0'.  I'd love
this, especially if NetBSD were able to grok other *BSD and BSD/OS partition
types.  (Then I could agitate BSD/OS to start supporting the same feature,
and pretty soon everyone could share data.)

-s