Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:03:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount /unmount Message-ID: <4E11D64B.70307@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAOgxTUjH9kObmRmvg8p_XDb34U4gfvtgCOCpzV5J4otg5XrgQg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOgxTUikp5XODhus35vt783s607Y%2Bz8JE3UoxL1dV8f=rS19Kw@mail.gmail.com> <20110704151505.99e0ed4d.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAOgxTUjH9kObmRmvg8p_XDb34U4gfvtgCOCpzV5J4otg5XrgQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/07/2011 15:50, tethys ocean wrote:
>> * Also keep the correct terminology: FreeBSD mounts UFS partitions,
>> > not slices. A slice contains a partition carrying a file system,
>> > usually UFS.*
>=20
>=20
> *Means that /usr is not slice ?? or /var is not slice? are all these =
are
> UFS ?*
It's just nomenclature. To look like a cool and savvy FreeBSD user,
talk about /partitions/ rather than /slices/.
UFS is the 'Unix File System' -- it describes the way the data are
formatted and managed on the disk. As opposed to, eg. ext3 (Linux)
or NTFS (Windows).
Cheers,
Matthew
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