Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 04:05:10 +0100 From: "Thomas Beauchamp" <thomas@noproblem.net> To: "David Uhring" <duhring@charter.net>, <chad@DCFinc.com>, <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> Cc: <JDBitters@cs.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Message-ID: <000001c01553$c5b1b300$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> In-Reply-To: <00090221070200.18474@dave>
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Chad and David, thank you for your replies: Chad R. Larson: > That one fdisk partition can then be broken into (up to) > 15 thingies. Let's call them slices. That's where I'm confused: I thought 'slice' was FreeBSD word for 'fdisk/Microsoft partition'? Chad R. Larson: > That one fdisk partition can then be broken into (up to) 15 > thingies. Let's call them slices. > > The disklabel program will allow you to create the slices within the > FreeBSD partition. One will probably be the primary swap space. > One will probably be the root filesystem. The rest are pretty much > up to you. David Uhring: > Partitions are configured with fdisk and slices are configured with disklabel. That's even more confusing as I though that that 'fdisk partition' would be called a 'slice' in FreeBSD jargon and that disklabel progam will create what FreeBSD calls 'partitions' as in 'partition a' for root file system, 'partition b' for swap space , etc ... So, is the following correct? For physical disk /dev/da0, we have for the 1st SLICE (Microsoft partition): (raw access) /dev/rda0s1 first slice /dev/rda0s1a or /dev/rda0a partition a, usually root file system /dev/rda0s1b or /dev/rda0b partition b, usually swap space /dev/rda0c whole FreeBSD slice /dev/rda0s1d or /dev/rda0d partition d /dev/rda0s1e or /dev/rda0e partition e /dev/rda0s1f or /dev/rda0f partition f /dev/rda0s1g or /dev/rda0g partition g /dev/rda0s1h or /dev/rda0h partition h (block device) /dev/da0s1 first slice /dev/da0s1a or /dev/da0a partition a, usually root file system /dev/da0s1b or /dev/da0b partition b, usually swap space /dev/da0c /dev/da0s1d or /dev/da0d partition d /dev/da0s1e or /dev/da0e partition e /dev/da0s1f or /dev/da0f partition f /dev/da0s1g or /dev/da0g partition g /dev/da0s1h or /dev/da0h partition h and /dev/rda0s2 or /dev/da0s2 for 2nd SLICE (Microsoft partition) /dev/rda0s3 or /dev/da0s3 for 3rd SLICE (Microsoft partition) /dev/rda0s4 or /dev/da0s4 for 4th SLICE (Microsoft partition) and /dev/rda0s5 or /dev/da0s5 for 1st drive in Microsoft Extended partition /dev/rda0s6 or /dev/da0s6 for 2nd drive in Microsoft Extended partition /dev/rda0s7 or /dev/da0s7 for 3rd drive in Microsoft Extended partition Many thanks. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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