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To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>
Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:58:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Cc: Brett Waldon <necro666@sbcglobal.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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> Under FBSD, disk label maker is used to make "slices".
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  


One further note.
Fdisk makes (Unix) slices (the same as DOS *primary* partitions); disklabel 
actually makes (Unix) partitions (subdivisions within a slice).

Unix partitions (within a slice) resemble, in a way, DOS logical partitions 
(within an extended partition).

-- Salvo

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