From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 26 22:51:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA04352 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA04343 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA23317; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:50:32 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA25888; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:50:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id HAA02281; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:37:42 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602270637.HAA02281@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:37:42 +0100 (MET) Cc: michaelv@headcandy.com, darrenr@cyber.com.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, port-i386@netbsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602261859.KAA01560@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Feb 26, 96 10:59:11 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Jason Thorpe wrote: > I think the FreeBSD notion of "slices" is what's > created by the DOS partition table. FreeBSD get's a "slice" of the disk > (we call this the "NetBSD portion of the disk") and partitions it up. > > This is based on quick scans of the FreeBSD code ... I could be totally > wrong. You're absolutely right. There used to be a ``README.slices'' someday explaining this... -- 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. ;-)