Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:41:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <1000478505.3ba2172928ba8@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> i think you have the terminology back to front & technically there is no
> DOS partition involved.
I don't want to start a flame war about terminology. :-)
Maybe I should have said "a DOS-style partition", or rather, a "BIOS"
partition, as fdisk(8) suggests. You seem to prefer "IBM partition". But my
post was also sent to a Windows user...
To make matters worse, disklabel(8) explicicitly speaks of, er, DOS slices
[sic!].
By the way, in all the books/documentation I have been RTFMing^Wreading so
far, a Unix slice is defined as a BIOS/DOS-[like/style] partition. More
precisely, it is one of the four entries in the partition table contained in
the MBR (64 bytes, starting at byte 446).
> there IBM partitions on your disk. BSD will take one of those partions for
> it's own & allow you to create slices within it.
??????
Am I missing something?
--Salvo
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