Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:35:57 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: "'Bond, Jeffery'" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>, Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, "'alan17@his.com'" <alan17@his.com>, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179656@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Bond, Jeffery [SMTP:Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:28 PM > To: 'Ladavac Marino'; 'alan17@his.com'; dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD > > I think the naming is confusing. Surely, we should call the main > partition a > 'partition' and not a slice (same as everyone else), and then have > some > other name for the subdivisions that the disklabel editor creates. > [ML] Same as who else? DOS world? Disklabel partitions are partitions in UNIX world :) /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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