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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: another dumb question..
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:20:58 +0100 (MET)
Cc: Hudginsj@smtp.dancooks.com (Jason Hudgins)
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <22E0277201A@smtp.dancooks.com> from Jason Hudgins at "Dec 18, 96 02:44:45 pm"
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As Jason Hudgins wrote:

> mount /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
> gives me an *incorrect superblock*

Right.  /dev/wd0s1 is likely to not have a correct UFS superblock, and
UFS is the default fstype for mount(8).

> is a slice the equivalent of a partition?

No.  Slices are super-partitions.

For example:

+-----------------+-------------------------+--------------------+
|    slice 1      |        slice 2          |    slice 3         |
|    type FAT     |        type *BSD        |    empty           |
|    wd0s1        |        wd0s2            |                    |
+-----------------+-------+-------+---------+--------------------+
|                 |part a |part b |part e   |                    |
|    (no part's)  |root fs|swap   |/usr fs  |    (no part's)     |
|                 |wd0s2a |wd0s2b |wd0s2e   |                    |
+-----------------+-------+-------+---------+--------------------+
                  |  alias:  wd0s2c         |
                  +-------------------------+

-- 
cheers, J"org

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