Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:30:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), jmd17@columbia.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using an extended partition for freebsd Message-ID: <200210162030.g9GKUia21490@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <oiwuoi5fvi.uoi@localhost.localdomain> from "Gary W. Swearingen" at Oct 16, 2002 12:43:29 PM
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> > > > Right. An extended partition is something MS came up with to get around > > some historical narrow thinking. FreeBSD doesn't need that. > > Be careful there. The BSD OSes essentially do the same thing, except > they allow four "extended" partitions and use different internal formats > and names: > primary partition -> slice > secondary partition -> partition Sort of, but not quite. FreeBSD partitions divide up slices in to nice neat separately mountable (if they are made in to file systems) independantly addressable units. > I think we should use the IBM jargon. While the slice/partition jargon > is a bit cleaner, the benefit is not worth the costs in continually > needing to explain the differences in documents and support forums, > and giving newbies another reason to return to what they know best. I don't agree there. Using slice & partition within slice is more clear thatn partition and extended partition and may make newbees heave a sigh of relief. > > It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). > > Actually, it doesn't. FreeBSD can just have what it calls "partitions", > in which case there won't be a "partition table". But "they" recommend > having one slice anyway; I guess to support software (eg, on a Linux > disk) thatexpects the more common disk layout. Yes, the socalled "dangerously dedicated" disk, sure. On today's large disks there is little reason to do it that way. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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