From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 17 09:12:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA06777 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA06771 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA02339 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:11:28 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:11:23 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA06768; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:11:10 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id RAA01048; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:09:50 GMT To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: chat@freebsd.org, jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu (Jeremy Sigmon) Subject: Re: partitions vs filesystems References: <199612170949.KAA15078@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: Paul Richards Date: 17 Dec 1996 17:09:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:49:17 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <57n2vd2j36.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > PC Unix systems that have grown up on the PC hardware were more > familiar with PC partitioning schemes to begin with, and haven't > developed a partitioning scheme of its own (Minix, Linux, maybe also > Coherent). I dunno how Linux handles partitioning e.g. on the Alpha. >From the little I've played with it it seems to put an MBR on the disk :-) This isn't so silly because so does NT :-) The PC way of sharing disks has become something of a cross-platform standard where a Microsoft OS is available for that platform. Kind of makes our life easier I guess since it means we can use the same code. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155