From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 01:59:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E58116A41A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB8A43D46 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:59:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5C1xcTJ018135; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k5C1xcOQ018134; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:59:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200606120159.k5C1xcOQ018134@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com (RW) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:59:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200606112156.30310.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:59:40 -0000 > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >