From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 03:27:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA27178 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:27:02 -0700 Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA26841 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:20:56 -0700 Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id NAA22016 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 13:17:06 +0300 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA29696 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:43:11 +0300 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA12265; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:43:10 +0300 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199508230943.MAA12265@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: Terms (was: Re: Of slices... To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:43:10 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3753.809164786@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 23, 95 00:59:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 620 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk # 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.