From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 2 18:33:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8235A37B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.4unet.co.uk [212.67.128.143] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AB0975D50144; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:36:09 +0100 Received: from James [212.67.152.86] by smtp.4unet.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id AA6615800094; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 02:33:26 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Thomas Beauchamp" To: , Cc: , Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:33:23 +0100 Message-ID: <000c01c01546$f334ed40$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200009030057.RAA08631@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! My understanding is: a 'slice', in FreeBSD lingo is a 'Microsoft's partition', of which you can only have FOUR (past the MBR and partition table). FreeBSD partitions exist on a Microsoft slice, and you can have up to 8 FreeBSD partitions per slice. So a 'dangerously dedicated disk', having nothing to do with Microsoft, has essentially no slice, just partitions. Am I right? But I find it confusing that FreeBSD uses the 's' of slice in its naming terminology : '/dev/da0s1a' for instance, whilst other versions of BSD omit the 'slice information' and would call the root file system '/dev/da0a' instead. I understand that FreeBSD support this terminology too ('compatibility slice naming'), but it's all confusing for me: when Microsoft 'partitions' are not there AT ALL (as it is the case in a 'dangerously dedicated disk'), why then use the term 'slice'? Thomas Beauchamp New-B -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chad R. Larson Sent: 03 September 2000 01:57 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: JDBitters@cs.com; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM As I recall, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:02:04AM -0400, JDBitters@cs.com wrote: >> Recently, I copied a 4.1-20000813-STABLE installation to a larger disk. >> >> I used /stand/sysinstall to create a "dangerously dedicated" disk and to >> custom label it. Thereafter, I mounted the new slices... > > Huh? A dangerously dedicated disk has no slices. Sure it does. Up to 15 of them. What it doesn't have is partitions. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message