From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 25 23:34:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA00555 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from plum.cyber.com.au (plum.cyber.com.au [203.7.155.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA00543 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 23:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from darrenr@localhost) by plum.cyber.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA03149; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:27:25 +1100 From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <199602260727.SAA03149@plum.cyber.com.au> Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 18:27:24 +1100 (EST) Cc: darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602260533.VAA10264@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Feb 25, 96 09:32:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In some mail I received from Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com, sie wrote > > > >I'd like to report that partition slices in FreeBSD 2.1.0 and NetBSD 1.1 > >aren't 100% compatible. > > I wasn't aware NetBSD even *had* "slices". It depends on what you want to call it, I guess, but is a good a name as any for describing partitioning within a partition. FreeBSD distinguishes them as "wd0s[1-4][a-h]". So what would have been wd0g is now wd0s1g, for example. Linux doesn't support this (1.2.13) at all, from what I can tell. Solaris 2.x x86 does (haven't tried to mount one of those partitions yet, but will try tonight or later this week). Yes, I'm trying to make all 4 co-exist on one box...Interestingly, the Solaris 2 partition shows up as "Linux Swap" under various fdisks...and otherwise forgetting about Linux as much as possible. In my case, I've got 7 partitions across 2 disks, with 2 for DOS, 1 for Solaris, 1 for Linux, 3 for BSD. To make booting work, the boot partition for each of FreeBSD and NetBSD needs to be on a separate disk (unless I want to play with what is active and not all the time). The third BSD partition is being used to provide "private" extra trees for each whilst also (hopefully) provide a common partition (for stuff like netscape, etc). DOS's 4 partition rule is a pain. btw, I'm coming to the realisation that I'm insane attempting this >%-)