From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 8:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030E214BF8 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA46478; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:13:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:13:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199906101513.KAA46478@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Bond, Jeffery" Cc: "'Ladavac Marino'" , "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: RE: Partitioning the disk for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well I _could_ say Unix was there first! ;-) I agree that this is confusing to {DOS,Windows,Linux}-heads. Blame IBM for screwing up the nomenclature with the introduction of the XT. This whole "problem" is a consequence of the "multiple operating systems on one hard disk" capability plus converging incompatible nomenclature schemes. If we had to set up a separate hard disk for every OS we wanted to run, the PC boot procedure would probably look a whole lot more like that of a Sun or (pick your own favorite commercial Unix vendor). Bud Dodson Bond, Jeffery writes: > Hi Marino > > Yes, same as DOS, Windows, Linux, but I agree that that the disklabel > 'partitions' are partitions in the UNIX world. It is still confusing though, > and I don't know a way around it really. It's just a shame that what DOS, > windows and Linux users call a 'partition', we call a 'slice'. > > Regards, > > Jeff > > [elided] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message