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From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To: "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@neomedia.it>
Cc: "Brett Waldon" <necro666@sbcglobal.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:26:57 -0700
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Salvo,

You are correct -- I mixed up my terminology. I was trying to help this guy
and instead I probably confused him more.

Kory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salvo Bartolotta [mailto:bartequi@neomedia.it]
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> [ Sorry, I messed up my mail ]
>
> > Under FBSD, disk label maker is used to make "slices". Slices are the
> > equivalent to partition under windows which map to a disk
> drive. However,
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> So far so good.
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> > unix does not really use the same concept of disk drive. Each partition
> > (i.e. unix slice) is a individual file system or swap space that gets
>         ^^^^^^^^^^       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> This connection doesn't hold.
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