From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 19:57:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA07794 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:57:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA07595 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:49:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id EAA10220; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 04:46:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA16107; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:39:24 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:39:23 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten), ping@stepnet.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... References: <199701152328.QAA04910@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701152328.QAA04910@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 15, 1997 16:28:57 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > Note that the whole partition doesn't have to be under 1G, only: ``slice'' > > o the disklabel > o the a slice ``partition'', Terry! Please avoid confusing other users with your non-FreeBSD terminology. If SVR4 decided to leave the Unix tradition and named what used to be called a partition a slice later, that's their problem. FreeBSD has a commonly stated terminology, so use this one when talking about FreeBSD. -- 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. ;-)