From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 16 16:15:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA24537 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA24528 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:15:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu by albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) with ESMTP id TAA24749; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:16:43 -0500 Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/4.0) id ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:14:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:14:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199701170014.TAA17309@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >> >>> Ok, i've realized that we ``only'' support 30 slices either. >> >> Per partition? >>> No. You're confusing terms. :-) >> Actually, I was thinking of Solaris x86, in which the term `partition' >> is used in the x86 tradition of the stuff recorded at the beginning of >> the HDD and edited with `fdisk' and its ilk. > Sadly, yes. I wonder how they kept congruency with Solaris/Sparc. > Did they add an fdisk table to the latter, in order to keep the same > terminology? :) No, they added an fdisk table to the x86. Since this would only change device names, and only the ones used in /etc/mnttab, it wasn't a big deal. I don't believe Solaris/Sparc supports multi-OS partitioning (what other OS would you run on a Sparc?) (Hey, everybody, let's start a FreeBSD/Sparc team...) although it does support slicing. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped