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Old 21st September 2008
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Partitions in FreeBSD are numbered liked so:
da device name/identifer
1 device number
s slice identifier
4 slice number

So da1 is "second SCSI disk in system", and s4 is "fourth slice on the drive".
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Last edited by phoenix; 27th September 2008 at 08:05 PM. Reason: Had 1 and 4 reversed
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