From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 2 18:50: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D645F37B43C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08833; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:49:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200009030149.SAA08833@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM In-Reply-To: <000c01c01546$f334ed40$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> from Thomas Beauchamp at "Sep 3, 0 02:33:23 am" To: thomas@noproblem.net Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:49:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, JDBitters@cs.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Thomas Beauchamp wrote: > 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? It =is= confusing. Microsoft and the BIOS manufacturers don't even use regular terminology. There is some conflict within the FreeBSD documentation (i.e. the handbook) even. The "fdisk" program will allow you to create up to four different thingies on the disk. Let's call them partitions. If you install Linux, a couple of them are pre-opted for the swap space and for the filesystems. If you install Windows, you can burn two or more of them for the C: drive and then for "extended partitions" (D: and beyond). If you install FreeBSD, it wants one of them. That one fdisk partition can then be broken into (up to) 15 thingies. Let's call them slices. The disklabel program will allow you to create the slices within the FreeBSD partition. One will probably be the primary swap space. One will probably be the root filesystem. The rest are pretty much up to you. There is a FreeBSD naming convention that will allow you access to the "partitions" (as used here), in case you want to mount your MS-DOS data onto your FreeBSD system. Anyway, just be careful you know what the context is when you read (or hear) the terms "partition" and "slice". For this e-mail (and possibly nowhere else), you can have four partitions and 15 slices. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message