On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Martin wrote: > Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:53 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>: > >> /dev/da0s2.00000000 >> /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0 >> /dev/da0s5 -> /dev/da0s2.00000000 >> /dev/da0s6 -> /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0 > > Hi. > > As far as I remember, the old MS-DOS scheme for partitioning > (we have GPT now ;) that I am happy with) implements these logical > partitions as a linked list. Why not have a simple index pointing to > the list entry? > > Something like this: > > /dev/da0s2.1 > /dev/da0s2.2 > > Might be starting with 1 or perhaps 0. What happens if you add a partition to the head of the list? > Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"? That's the how logical partitions are named in 7.x -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Tue Feb 03 2009 - 17:15:55 UTC
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