From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 7: 8:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ranger.argus-systems.com (ranger.argus-systems.com [206.221.232.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B37F37B407 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dedog.argus-systems.co.uk (host62-172-83-26.host.btclick.com [62.172.83.26]) by ranger.argus-systems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08436 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:08:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dedog.argus-systems.co.uk (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:11:11 +0100 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:11:11 +0100 From: Fergus Cameron To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <20010914151110.A2094@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1000475917.3ba20d0dee7b2@webmail.neomedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1000475917.3ba20d0dee7b2@webmail.neomedia.it>; from bartequi@neomedia.it on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:58:37PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Fdisk makes (Unix) slices (the same as DOS *primary* partitions); disklabel > actually makes (Unix) partitions (subdivisions within a slice). i think you have the terminology back to front & technically there is no DOS partition involved. there IBM partitions on your disk. BSD will take one of those partions for it's own & allow you to create slices within it. you can therefore have on BSD partition with many slices. the other three paritions can be of another type, DOS, EXT_DOS, etc. i would think of unix slices like logical drives in DOS. you take one primary partion & allow many logical elements inside it. that aside yes, fdisk alters the fixed disk's parition table & disklabel changes the parition's unix labellling (i.e. slices). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message