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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:28:49 +0200
From:      Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Ronald Maggio <ron_maggio2004@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An installation on SCSI Drives
Message-ID:  <43666261.8050600@raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200510312219.18725.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <20051030214423.11355.qmail@web52109.mail.yahoo.com>	<4365F16A.5070102@raad.tartu.ee> <200510312219.18725.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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Malcolm Kay wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:56 pm, Toomas Aas wrote:

>>A typical FreeBSD installation on one HDD uses two partitions:
>>a FreeBSD partition and a swap partition. Inside the FreeBSD
>>partition are slices, which are mounted under directories
>>(mountpoints) such as /var. So, your question seems to be
>>about slices, not partitions.
>>
> 
> The usual BSD terminology is just the reverse of this.
> What MS calls partitions are usually known in FreeBSD terminology 
> as "slices".

Geez, what was I thinking! Of course you (and everybody else in this 
thread) is right and I am wrong. I'll go stand in the corner now.


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