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Old 15th November 2022
bsd-keith bsd-keith is offline
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Generally, FreeBSD uses da, whereas OpenBSD uses the sd disk naming convention.

(/dev/rsdNc = raw scsi disk N - c stands for the whole disk)

a = /
b = swap
c = whole disk

Then other letters will allow for other 'partitions', which are sections of a 'slice', in BSD terminology.
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