On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:50:34 -0500
Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:

> Is there a convention for which NetBSD device should be used for on
> mountable volumes that have only MSDOS file systems?  Currently, I have 
> some that use 'e' but one that uses 'd'.  Should I just use disklabel 
> to fix it?  More precisely, at least one of the devices (a USB widget) 
> has no label, so the kernel is using 'e' -- should I just wipe the 
> other "disk"?  dd if=/dev/zero?

label: a = root filesystem
       b = swap space
       c = whole disklabel
       d = whole disk (I think this is only used in i386)
       e... = everything else

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/