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Date:      Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:59:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com (RW)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200606120159.k5C1xcOQ018134@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200606112156.30310.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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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.  

In the FreeBSD world,  the term partition is used as a secondary division
of a slice.  Since we are mainly talking about xxBSd UNIX here...

////jerry

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