Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:37:34 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <199701150037.TAA09401@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970114093948.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>>> Ok, i've realized that we ``only'' support 30 slices either. >> Per partition? > No. You're confusing terms. :-) Actually, I was thinking of Solaris x86, in which the term `partition' is used in the x86 tradition of the stuff recorded at the beginning of the HDD and edited with `fdisk' and its ilk. (/dev/hd0[a-d]) Then it slices that up (/dev/hd0[a-d][0-9]+) and those slices are what go into your mount table. > We support 7 partitions each inside the 30 slices. See the > subject. ;-) You mean those headers serve a purpose besides sendmail holes? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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