svn commit: r41811 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics

[Eitan Adler]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> Log:
>>  Clarify some language relating to how disks are laid out in &os;
>>
>>  Submitted by:  crees
>>
>> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml      Sat Jun  1
>> 15:23:47 2013        (r41810)
>> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml      Sat Jun  1
>> 15:36:21 2013        (r41811)
>> @@ -1380,11 +1380,10 @@ root     5211  0.0  0.2  3620  1724   2
>>       </tgroup>
>>     </informaltable>
>>
>> -    <para>Each partition-that-contains-a-file-system is stored in what
>> -      &os; calls a <firstterm>slice</firstterm>.  Slice is
>> -      &os;'s term for what the common call partitions, and again,
>> -      this is because of &os;'s &unix; background.  Slices are
>> -      numbered, starting at 1, through to 4.</para>
>> +    <para>Disks in &os; are divided into slices, referred to in
>> +      &windows; as partitions, which are numbered from 1 to 4.  These
>> +      are then then divided into partitions, which contain file
>> +      systems, and are labeled using lettesrs.</para>
>
>
> This seems silently MBR-centric, though we are using GPT by default in our
> installer IIRC...
> This is the "basics" chapter, though, so I'm not sure how best to change
> things (and that would probably end up a larger project).

I would be happy to see some additional work in this area.  I believe
wblock@ is working on the storage area in general.

That said, I don't have the time for rewriting this section.


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