From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 20:57:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3084837B538 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 20:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leegold@erols.com) Received: from 209-122-223-94.s94.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.223.94] helo=leegold1) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12tjLE-0001Bn-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 21 May 2000 23:57:20 -0400 Message-ID: <001601bfc3a1$f687a920$5edf7ad1@leegold1> From: "leegold" To: Subject: ques: partition, slice, disk label, mounting point Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 23:58:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've read tons of stuff on the web. still trying to understand the basics of the FreeBSD installation. maybe if anyone could explain the following term, concepts it would make a dent: disk labeling (vs. slices, partitions, mounting points ). slices, (vs partitions, what's the difference). mounting points. how dirs (eg. \ ) are mounted to the partitions ( or is it slices ), why, how, when? Thanks (newbie) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message