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Subject: Re: Geometry weirdness with sysinstall/libdisk
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:46:38 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
In-Reply-To: <19971002084852.PP26017@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 2, 97 08:48:52 am
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> These are partitions, not slices.  You ought to learn the difference
> by now...

In case you haven't:

Slices are what DOS 'fdisk' calls partitions, and partitions are what
SunOS 'disklabel' calls slices.

Yes, we *are* bass-akwards from the rest of the world... lump it
until the distinction becomes irrelevant.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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