From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 16: 6:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB5C37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B2F43E6E for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021016230640.LJVA12986.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:06:40 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9GN9WUW057525; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:09:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9GN9Qog057522; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using an extended partition for freebsd References: <200210162030.g9GKUia21490@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Oct 2002 16:09:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200210162030.g9GKUia21490@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Be careful there. The BSD OSes essentially do the same thing, except > > they allow four "extended" partitions and use different internal formats > > and names: > > primary partition -> slice > > secondary partition -> partition > > Sort of, but not quite. FreeBSD partitions divide up slices in to > nice neat separately mountable (if they are made in to file systems) > independantly addressable units. And IBM-style secondary partitions divide up an extended primary partition in the same way, so they can even be mounted in the Unix way under Linux and FreeBSD. It's the same concept, though FreeBSD's has more restrictions (at least with current software). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message