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Subject: Re: Single slice for FreeBSD
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On 12/19/07, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> > I think I may be confusing partitions and slices.  Correct me if I'm
> > wrong please.  The subject should probably be "Single partition for
> > FreeBSD"?
>
>   It's all a bit confusing since the terms in FreeBSD are usually
> PC-centric.
>
>   Disks on power mac's are carved up using an Apple Partition Map and
> not  a PC-style MBR. The individual sections are 'partitions' in Apple
> terminology, but are 'slices' in FreeBSD MBR terminology. To confuse
> things even more, FreeBSD then subdivides up MBR 'slices' into BSD
> 'partitions', e.g. /dev/ad0s4a.
>
>   FreeBSD/ppc doesn't subdivide Apple partitions. I guess it could using
> GPT, but that would also involve a change to the bootloader.
>
>   In any event, I htink you are right: the terminology you want is a
> partition. Unfortunately the auto-create partitions in the disklabel
> part of sysinstall is busted - you have to manually do this. My
> recommendation is to select the Apple partition you want to use (e.g.
> /dev/ad0s8), put '/' on that, and optionally use another partition for swap.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the response!  Makes sense now.  I have 1GB of ram, so
it'll be interesting to see how long I can go without a swap
partition.