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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:43:10 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Terms (was: Re: Of slices...
Message-ID:  <199508230943.MAA12265@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <3753.809164786@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 23, 95 00:59:46 am

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# Well, perhaps we can indeed do something about this even so..
# 
# What if a "slice" referred only to an MBR entry, e.g. one of the 4
# entries configured by the fdisk editor - sd0s1, sd0s2 and so on.
# 
# A "partition" always referred to a subsection of a slice (a slice of a
# slice?  gah!), that is something modified by the disklabel editor -
# sd0s1a, sd0s2d and so on.
# 
	Will it be wise to make terms like "partition" obsolete
	(to avoid confusion for ex-dos people who Really Know What
	Partition Is :-)
	and introduce the term 'subslice'?

-- 

	With best wishes -- Andrew Stesin, Elvisti.Kiev.UA sysadmin.




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