From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 21 10:12:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BB211A12 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id TAA05801 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:12:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10EarW-000WyYC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Sun, 21 Feb 1999 16:32:06 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 21 Feb 1999 16:32:04 +0100 Message-ID: <7ap8tk$pqg$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7af7uh$dnb$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <199902181552.KAA15641@gatekeeper.itribe.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bowden wrote: > > Linux uses the standard PC partition model. FreeBSD treats standard > > partitions as slices and creates its own partitions within. Different > > approach, and the FreeBSD one is certainly harder to understand. > > I'm curious why you make this claim? Because that is the impression I get when I need to explain the concept to newbies. Also, simple observation on FreeBSD forums shows that confusion about "slices" and "partitions" is rampant. Heck, even I haven't figured out how disklabel(8) fits into that mess. > It's no more difficult to understand than the dos users concept of an > extended partition with multiple logical drives defined within it. Sure, it's not intrinsically difficult to understand. But extended partitions are just partitions that can be used by the various PC operating systems. FreeBSD does its own thing. I can't re-use the partitions in a FreeBSD slice for, say, Linux. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de >H Deutsche Transhumanismus-Mailingliste echo 'subscribe trans-de' | mail majordomo@lists.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message