Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 4:04 PM
> From: "Don NetBSD" <netbsd-embedded%gmx.com@localhost>
> To: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD
>
> With the exception of the "whole disk" partition, the others can be used
> as you wish.

Ok!

> As 'c' is "whole disk" on only SOME ports -- with 'd' being the whole disk
> on others -- I don't ever use these for anything but those roles:  consider
> mounting a disk that started out in life on one architecture (port) and now
> you want to mount it on another!

This is a very important thing to take into account.

> I like to mount /var on 'e', /usr on 'f', /usr/pkg on 'g' (picking up on
> the g in pkG as a mnemonic), /home on 'h', /Sources on 'i', /Playpen on 'j'
> and /Archive on 'k' (the hard ch as a mnemonic for the k) with /Leftovers
> for 'l'.

This is a very clever way to remember the partitions, and also to make them
uniform across several different disks.
Thank you for all your advices!

Rocky