Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:59:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com (RW) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD Message-ID: <200606120159.k5C1xcOQ018134@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200606112156.30310.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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> > On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > > that is the same. > > IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. > > I'm being very pedantic here, but I think it's more logical to think of a > slice occupying a primary partition, in the the same way as you might say an > integer occupies a word. In the FreeBSD world, the term partition is used as a secondary division of a slice. Since we are mainly talking about xxBSd UNIX here... ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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