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From: "Eric" <swive@getnet.com>
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Subject: difference between partition and slice?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:40:01 -0800
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Hi,

What's the difference between partition and slice?

Is there a technical distinction?

Or is it just that you use one term in unix world and another term in
windows world?

Tia,

eric


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