From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 7:39:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B4F14CA1 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:42:29 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179656@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: "'Bond, Jeffery'" , Ladavac Marino , "'alan17@his.com'" , dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:35:57 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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