From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 22 10: 4:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400F637B410 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8MH0Sp19574; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BACC4DD.CB782750@iowna.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:05:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wijnand Wiersma Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bart@hakkefest.linux-site.net Subject: Re: partitions and slices References: <1001177460.317.3.camel@wiers556> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wijnand Wiersma wrote: > > a friend of me asked me "why do I have to create slices within a > partition? what's the function of this?" You don't have to. Using "dangerously dedicated" only creates partitions. > what's wrong with partitions > only like linux?" Nothing, unless you want to install other OSes on the disk. BSD partitions are not compatible with DOS and it's relatives. Therefore, if you want the data accessible by other systems, you must create "slices" which equate to DOS partitions, and then you can create BSD partitions within the slices. All my disks are "dangerously dedicated" (because I use nothing but FreeBSD) and there are no slices on them. -Bill -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message