Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:44:32 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor Message-ID: <2636.1315896272@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:48:01 MST." <4e6f26d1.GZdzm/ZHXJjqFow1%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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In message <4e6f26d1.GZdzm/ZHXJjqFow1%perryh@pluto.rain.com>, perryh@pluto.rain .com writes: >Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Unix partitioning has always been this way: >> - create partition on disk for OS >> - create sub-partitions for filesystems No, it has not. In fact, it is only on PC like hardware that you can reliably share a disk between different mutually competitive operating systems. Most "unix-machines" don't have a concept of what you call partitions, and neither did BSD unix until 386BSD introduced it. Until then: One OS, one disk(-pack|-drive). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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