From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 15 01:24:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA18726 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:24:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA18716 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA29431; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:22:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA10656; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:01:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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] References: <199701150037.TAA09401@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701150037.TAA09401@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jan 14, 1997 19:37:34 -0500 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)