Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 10/31/05

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    To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To: questions@freebsd.org
Date: 31 Oct 2005 09:54:31 -0500

    Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@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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