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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:56:28 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200606112156.30310.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200606110211.k5B2BTYD014987@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk.  It is
> generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land.  But
> that is the same.  

IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term.

I'm being very pedantic here, but I think it's more logical to think of a 
slice occupying a primary partition, in the the same way as you might say an 
integer occupies a word.  



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