From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 17:29:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07445 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.seanet.com (dns2.seanet.com [199.181.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07437 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sab@dniquote.com) Received: from mail.dniquote.com (rar.seanet.com [199.181.167.103]) by mx.seanet.com (8.8.8/Seanet-8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25268; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sab@localhost) by mail.dniquote.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04152; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sab) Message-ID: <19980902172833.A3976@dniquote.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:28:33 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz To: Brett Glass , Dan Nelson , sab@seanet.com Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" Reply-To: Scott Blachowicz References: <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199808021131.FAA12204@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199809021901.MAA21131@two.sabami.seaslug.org> <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <19980902175652.A11500@emsphone.com> <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 06:02:21PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 06:02:21PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:56 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote > > >Sure it's logical. FDISK slices are always numbers; disklabel > >partitions are always letters. > > DOS logical drives are not slices! They're the equivalent of > disklabel partitions and should have letters at the end. Depends on how you define things. If you define a "slice" as a section of the disk whose dimensions are defined outside of FreeBSD (i.e. a DOS/NT/whatever partioning program) and a "partition" as a subdivision whose dimensions ARE defined by FreeBSD, then the terminology works. Or...whatever DOS/BIOS looks at as a "drive" gets translated to a FreeBSD "slice". The way you're looking at is that each primary partition should correspond to a FreeBSD slice and that a DOS logical drive is the logical (pun intended :-)) analogue to the FreeBSD partition. Either way seems to make sense to me, with the former being a little more flexible (esp. if you're into partitioning things up a lot). -- Scott Blachowicz sab@seanet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message