Date: 16 Oct 2002 16:09:26 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using an extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <kik7ki56c9.7ki@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200210162030.g9GKUia21490@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200210162030.g9GKUia21490@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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> > 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
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