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From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To: "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" <root@techyman.ml.org>
Subject: Re: partitioning new disks
Cc: Jesse <j@lumiere.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
        CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
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It depends, 

slices are made with fdisk and are generally know as partitions in the
dos world.
(disklabel-)partitions are made with disklabel and are laid out ontop of
slices or the entire disk.

Malte.

On 10-Jun-98 Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN) wrote:
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> Cyber: its the other way around,  fdisk for partitions, disklabel for
> slices.
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> Robert J. Lynn Jr. (TeChYMaN, TechyMan, rjlynn, TeChY)
> "What does rm -rf * do?"
> Owner/Operator Williamsport Computer
> Owner/Operator TeChYMaN's BSD Shells
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> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:
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>> Jesse wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I'm gonna be setting up a new disk on my system tomorrow. I was wondering
>> > if anyone had suggestions on the best way to partition the disk (like,
>> > what commands) and how to set it bootable. /stand/sysinstall maybe? I
>> > don't want to install anythin gon the drives, just make the
>> > partitions/slices and set it bootable.
>> > 
>> 
>> fdisk for slices, disklabel for partitions.  These are both "hidden"
>> in sysinstall.
>> 
>> Dave
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