From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 1141 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2023 17:31:06 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 31 Dec 2023 17:31:06 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AAC4170D; Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:30:59 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1704043859; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:list-id:list-help:list-owner: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=Ssb4ZKOnxLgw5OhHVd+iob+Si76HGInWendslCJPxAA=; b=TnNEk4rChm7Rf3ZTD4A+wPNLQ/a+8A9DEKXGGYkIGcQHp3fMuJPk2WvaJi/wtWyhKziEj7 1RHNIkZGl6/bFZcOhILICG+sXDgX8nV+8KR8S5NT+ZeoNTzAQiq4XfXageokfUfghWhioD LNVFJRzO4F4jQhZjCkRCMGbxxVGhl0o= Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDEB541048 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:30:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 3BVHUiCX001691 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:30:45 -0600 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tnetconsulting.net; s=2019; t=1704043845; bh=Ssb4ZKOnxLgw5OhHVd+iob+Si76HGInWendslCJPxAA=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:User-Agent:Content-Language:To:From: Subject:Content-Type:Cc:Content-Disposition:Content-Language: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Date:From:In-Reply-To: Message-ID:MIME-Version:References:Reply-To:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Sender:Subject:To:User-Agent; b=ViBBYRJBQaOAsKBNnPHOGmxT2bbn3+cXIEXQh0SZST+Cw20+iR1ZhwOnAb7Of0udb FeugpMlxYI71q1H/Fawg24+H/HZnv3hvm3zJvgLlAlgPNN4CaSX6hY/f3ziyHXGbN5 7intyXIU7In3pKsmvsVo2BsC7R/czOZRzpk9AMR8= Message-ID: <6470c59f-a1e5-418f-803d-76bcd761f530@tnetconsulting.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:30:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: The Unix Heritage Society Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha-256; boundary="------------ms060103060301000504060408" Message-ID-Hash: E4KQVKAA3L6LZYPKIDFUUSHCSQZMA5BD X-Message-ID-Hash: E4KQVKAA3L6LZYPKIDFUUSHCSQZMA5BD X-MailFrom: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Question about BSD disklabel history List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Grant Taylor via TUHS Reply-To: Grant Taylor This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms060103060301000504060408 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I've found myself wondering about partitions inside of BSD disk labels. Specifically, when and where was the convention that "a" is root, "b" is swap, etc? I also understand the "c" partition to be the entire disk, unless it isn't, at which point it's the entire slice (BIOS / MBR partition) containing the BSD disklabel and "d" is the entire disk. I also found something last night that indicated that OpenBSD uses disk labels somewhat differently than FreeBSD. Aside: This is one of the dangers of wondering how something curious came to be and why it came to be when working on 10-15 year old FreeBSD systems. -- Grant. . . . --------------ms060103060301000504060408 Content-Type: application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHAqCAMIACAQExDzANBglghkgBZQMEAgEFADCABgkqhkiG9w0BBwEAAKCC C0owggUyMIIEGqADAgECAhEA0VX8K1B6bsGDH67kXwHPWzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQsFADCBljEL MAkGA1UEBhMCR0IxGzAZBgNVBAgTEkdyZWF0ZXIgTWFuY2hlc3RlcjEQMA4GA1UEBxMHU2Fs Zm9yZDEYMBYGA1UEChMPU2VjdGlnbyBMaW1pdGVkMT4wPAYDVQQDEzVTZWN0aWdvIFJTQSBD bGllbnQgQXV0aGVudGljYXRpb24gYW5kIFNlY3VyZSBFbWFpbCBDQTAeFw0yMzExMTIwMDAw MDBaFw0yNDExMTEyMzU5NTlaMCsxKTAnBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWGmd0YXlsb3JAdG5ldGNvbnN1 bHRpbmcubmV0MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAzOnBjTJUlBTzN81c PlYErJc9kEbTI/hXq0NA6ZoG4VM6puYTEXtITANjgX+NRwwHjldESnC8dvh6Mx5ckEk9sWoD 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