Re: An installation on SCSI Drives

From: Toomas Aas (toomas.aas_at_raad.tartu.ee)
Date: 10/31/05

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To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

    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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