Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 02:33:23 +0100 From: "Thomas Beauchamp" <thomas@noproblem.net> To: <chad@DCFinc.com>, <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> Cc: <JDBitters@cs.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Message-ID: <000c01c01546$f334ed40$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> In-Reply-To: <200009030057.RAA08631@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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Hi!
My understanding is:
a 'slice', in FreeBSD lingo is a 'Microsoft's partition', of which you can
only have FOUR (past the MBR and partition table).
FreeBSD partitions exist on a Microsoft slice, and you can have up to 8
FreeBSD partitions per slice.
So a 'dangerously dedicated disk', having nothing to do with Microsoft, has
essentially no slice, just partitions. Am I right?
But I find it confusing that FreeBSD uses the 's' of slice in its naming
terminology : '/dev/da0s1a' for instance, whilst other versions of BSD omit
the 'slice information' and would call the root file system '/dev/da0a'
instead. I understand that FreeBSD support this terminology too
('compatibility slice naming'), but it's all confusing for me: when
Microsoft 'partitions' are not there AT ALL (as it is the case in a
'dangerously dedicated disk'), why then use the term 'slice'?
Thomas Beauchamp
New-B
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chad R. Larson
Sent: 03 September 2000 01:57
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc: JDBitters@cs.com; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM
As I recall, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:02:04AM -0400, JDBitters@cs.com wrote:
>> Recently, I copied a 4.1-20000813-STABLE installation to a larger disk.
>>
>> I used /stand/sysinstall to create a "dangerously dedicated" disk and to
>> custom label it. Thereafter, I mounted the new slices...
>
> Huh? A dangerously dedicated disk has no slices.
Sure it does. Up to 15 of them. What it doesn't have is
partitions.
-crl
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