From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 20:34:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dsl092-007-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.7.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBF937B407 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 47E795C87; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:35:04 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: Jasper O'Malley Cc: Jason , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disklabel Mistake Message-ID: <20011001203504.C38992@toldme.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jooji@nickelkid.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:24:52PM -0400 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu 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 Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:24:52PM -0400, Jasper O'Malley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jason wrote: > > > I made a error in labling a slice during installation of FreeBSD. I know > > it's a stupid thing, but I did it. > > > > I labled a slice (ad1s1g) /htpp when it should be /http. > > Actually, ad1s1g is a FreeBSD "partition," not a "slice." The "slice" is > ad1s1 (which is a disk "partition" in the Linux/DOS world; confused > yet? ;). If you think you know what's going on, review fdisk(8): Throughout this man page, the term `partition' is used where it should actually be `slice', in order to conform with the terms used elsewhere. It makes one relieved at not having any pending FreeBSD installs. :) -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message