From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 14: 8:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pimout4-int.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C01F37B406 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sbcglobal.net (adsl-64-175-232-66.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.175.232.66]) by pimout4-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f8EL7wI40960; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:07:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA271B1.DB1E42F@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:08:01 -0700 From: Brett Waldon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Kory Hamzeh , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <1000474613.3ba207f5d882c@webmail.neomedia.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 got it workin thanx i hope unix is as good as ive heard :-) Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > 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, > > So far so good. > > > 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 > ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^ ^ > ^------------------^ > > This connection doesn't hold. > > > mounted as a directory off of the root directory. > > I am afraid not. I do understand that you probably understand, but you are > saying something different. > > "DOS *primary* partitions" correspond to Unix slices. Each Unix slice can > contain subdivisions called "partitions". **These partitions** can be used as > individual filesystems or swap. > > Number of (Unix) partitions within one slice: up to 8. Letters (a-h) are used > to indicate these partitions. In particular, "b" indicates swap, "c" the whole > disk. > > As a result, the Unix scheme is more flexible since you can specify partitions > within **each** slice. And you can have up to 4 slices per disk. > > N.B. FreeBSD requires (at least) one DOS **primary** partition, ie at least > one slice. Some people wrote that they succeeded in making use of a (DOS) > extended partition, ie with some hacking. I haven't tried such an approach so > far; however, that is decidedly NOT for the faint of heart. > > > For example, most systems > > have three slices: root (which gets mounted at "/"), swap, and usr which > ^^^^^^ > > Of course, you mean partitions. > > By the way, partition and slice are as it were etymologically, er, parallel. > "Partition" < Latin "partiri" (to divide); "slice" < O.F. "esclicier", of > Germanic origin, related to German "schleissen" (to slice). > > Gasp. I almost core dumped while reading your post. :-) > > -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message