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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:37:24 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: difference between partition and slice?
Message-ID:  <20020813000724.GC48092@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg>
References:  <20020811015144.GE31770@wantadilla.lemis.com> <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg>

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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
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