From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 12 10:06:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22395 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 10:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.182.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA22300 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 10:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id BAA22437; Tue, 13 May 1997 01:06:11 +0800 Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12201; Mon, 12 May 1997 22:49:59 +0800 (TSD) From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Message-Id: <199705121449.WAA12201@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: Installation Problems To: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:49:58 +0800 (TSD) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Steve Howe" at "May 10, 97 08:57:31 pm" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Howe wrote: > so i would -guess- a slice is just an extra block somewhere in a FBSD > partition that contains data for more "psuedo-partitions" that only FBSD > can deal with. but i still don't understand why it was so important to > have these extra "psuedo-partitions" at the cost of making things more > non-standard. i mean - if you really wanted 8 partitions, why not just > get a second hard drive? > > / > /dos > /usr > /var > > isn't that enough for a 1 drive system? You did not forget about a swap partition? -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm