From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 7:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9F837B403 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8EEfj317674; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:41:45 +0200 (CEST) To: Fergus Cameron Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <1000478505.3ba2172928ba8@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:41:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.152.122 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message