From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 3 6:21:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D04437B424 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 06:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.4unet.co.uk [212.67.128.143] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0FA8D930134; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:24:10 +0100 Received: from James [212.67.147.121] by smtp.4unet.co.uk (SMTPD32-5.05) id A05A581800A8; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:21:30 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Thomas Beauchamp" To: "Salvo Bartolotta" Cc: Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 14:21:26 +0100 Message-ID: <000e01c015a9$dd04a7a0$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000903.11494700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Salvo, "clear, flexible and rational" Your are right, as long as people stick to the terminology and do not start saying 2I know that this should be called a partition but here after I'll call it a slice..." or vice-versa ... Thank you too for the etymology ... ^_^ Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Salvo Bartolotta [mailto:bartequi@inwind.it] Sent: 03 September 2000 12:50 To: thomas@noproblem.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM [ redirected to -chat ] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/3/00, 4:38:48 AM, "Thomas Beauchamp" wrote regarding FW: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM: > Hi Siegbert, > Thank you for your comments. > I wonder why this terminology trouble has not been ironed out yet, as if > things were not confused enough ... > Thomas Hello Thomas, If you think about it, you 'll find the [Free]BSD way clear, flexible and rational. A "slice" (=partition in DOS/Winblows parlance) may be further subdivided: you can have up to 8 subdivisions (=partitions in FreeBSD parlance), or up to 16 subdivisions (under OpenBSD). This method is much more flexible than, say, M$'s: e.g. I have been able to make some *BSD systems coexist on my workstation -- otherwise, I would have run out of "partitions" (in M$'s sense) :-) Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message