From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 7:49:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C09D2114CB for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199902181552.KAA15641@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by marsellus.itribe.net (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA03497; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:49:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:49:04 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17 Feb 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > in an empty partition (and it get two , damn it because it > > doens't know that partitions can be sub-divided in slice for swap i.e.). > > Linux uses the standard PC partition model. FreeBSD treats standard > partitions as slices and creates its own partitions within. Different > approach, and the FreeBSD one is certainly harder to understand. (How do > {Net,Open}BSD/i386 handle this?) I'm curious why you make this claim? It's no more difficult to understand than the dos users concept of an extended partition with multiple logical drives defined within it. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message