From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 17: 7:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7236637B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E98143E77 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 534EC81277; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:37:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:37:24 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ivailo Tanusheff Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: difference between partition and slice? Message-ID: <20020813000724.GC48092@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020811015144.GE31770@wantadilla.lemis.com> <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 12 August 2002 at 18:44:03 +0300, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: > [missing attribution to Greg Lehey] >> In a nutshell: >> >> BIOS BSD >> >> partition slice >> extended partition partition > > That's not correct! > In BIOS you may have up to 4 extended partitions, while in FreeBSD > you haven't such limitation about the partitions. No, you can have a large number of partitions in a BIOS extended partition. I don't know of any fixed limit. FreeBSD is limited to 7 partitions (8 if you ignore the requirement for the c partition to correspond to the entire slice). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message