An installation on SCSI Drives

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Oct 31 06:54:33 PST 2005


Toomas Aas <toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee> writes:

> First, let's get our terms correct.
> 
> 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.

Nope, the original poster had the terms correct.

Quoting the Handbook:

   Each partition-that-contains-a-file-system is stored in what
   FreeBSD calls a slice. Slice is FreeBSD's term for what the common
   call partitions, and again, this is because of FreeBSD's UNIX
   background. Slices are numbered, starting at 1, through to 4.


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