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. --- ... The truth is out there. Does anyone know the URL?
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