Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:01:01 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <Mutt.19970115100101.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701150037.TAA09401@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jan 14, 1997 19:37:34 -0500 References: <Mutt.19970114093948.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701150037.TAA09401@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >>> 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. Sadly, yes. I wonder how they kept congruency with Solaris/Sparc. Did they add an fdisk table to the latter, in order to keep the same terminology? :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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