From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 22:51: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35E037B409 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f8E5p2UM020015; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:51:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Brett Waldon" , Subject: RE: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:51:05 -0700 Message-ID: <001401c13ce1$3e342f00$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <3BA192A9.CC1253EC@sbcglobal.net> Importance: Normal 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 Under FBSD, disk label maker is used to make "slices". Slices are the equivalent to partition under windows which map to a disk drive. However, unix does not really use the same concept of disk drive. Each partition (i.e. unix slice) is a individual file system or swap space that gets mounted as a directory off of the root directory. For example, most systems have three slices: root (which gets mounted at "/"), swap, and usr which gets mounted at /usr. However, you can simple create a directory called /gobbly-gook and mount the usr file system as /goobly-gook. So when you do a "cd /goobly-gook" you'll end up in the slice. A slice (i.e. partition i.e. filesystem) can be mounted inside another file system. Filesystem are reference by the device name (/dev/*) or mount point (/usr). Kory > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brett Waldon > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:16 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker > > > what am i suppost to put as a label i dont understand it (i am a windows > native) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message