From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 17 11:08:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA20057 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:08:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from franc.ucdavis.edu (franc.ucdavis.edu [128.120.8.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA20048 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com by franc.ucdavis.edu (8.8.4/UCD3.8.4) id LAA18817; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:08:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id LAA02365; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:08:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:08:23 -0800 From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David O'Brien) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] References: <199701170014.TAA17309@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.57-PL4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: deobrien@ucdavis.edu Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Jan 17, 1997 09:43:42 +0100 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > > Sadly, yes. I wonder how they kept congruency with Solaris/Sparc. > > > Did they add an fdisk table to the latter, in order to keep the same > > > terminology? :) > > > > No, they added an fdisk table to the x86. > > Yes, and by this, they changed the use of the term `partition' from > their native partitions to the fdisk ones, so they also had to change > the name of their native partitions to `slice'. Now their terminology > does no longer match the Sparc version. Is it really that far off? Since disks under Solaris are /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s2 ==> controler 0, scsi target 3, disk 0 (ie. lun), and *slice* 2. [/dev/sd0c in the SunOS world] So maybe that's why they picked it the way they did. > Needless to say, there's no way to ``do the right thing'' here. Agreed. -- -- David (deobrien@ucdavis.edu)