An installation on SCSI Drives

Toomas Aas toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee
Mon Oct 31 10:28:55 PST 2005


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.


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