Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:55:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r41811 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1306011552570.9389@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <201306011536.r51FaLfP079593@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201306011536.r51FaLfP079593@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Eitan Adler wrote: > Log: > Clarify some language relating to how disks are laid out in &os; > > Submitted by: crees > > Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml > ============================================================================== > --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml Sat Jun 1 15:23:47 2013 (r41810) > +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml Sat Jun 1 15:36:21 2013 (r41811) > @@ -1380,11 +1380,10 @@ root 5211 0.0 0.2 3620 1724 2 > </tgroup> > </informaltable> > > - <para>Each partition-that-contains-a-file-system is stored in what > - &os; calls a <firstterm>slice</firstterm>. Slice is > - &os;'s term for what the common call partitions, and again, > - this is because of &os;'s &unix; background. Slices are > - numbered, starting at 1, through to 4.</para> > + <para>Disks in &os; are divided into slices, referred to in > + &windows; as partitions, which are numbered from 1 to 4. These > + are then then divided into partitions, which contain file > + systems, and are labeled using lettesrs.</para> This seems silently MBR-centric, though we are using GPT by default in our installer IIRC... This is the "basics" chapter, though, so I'm not sure how best to change things (and that would probably end up a larger project). -Ben
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