From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 13:02:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA14204 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:02:43 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA14186 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:02:36 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA20779; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:00:21 +1000 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 06:00:21 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199508222000.GAA20779@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: alain@Wit401402.student.utwente.nl, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. Cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> It's kind of a pity since I've gotten a lot of tech support emails >> from people who were very confused that / showed up on `sd0a' while >> everything else was on a slice. It makes a somewhat confusing model >> ... >Both in the documentation on partitioning your disk on the installation >disk (file '.../partition.hlp') and in '/usr/share/FAQ/Text/diskspace.FAQ' >the terms are interchanged. They seem to be quite consistent. BSD partitions are named partitions and DOS partitions are named slices. The native partitions have to be named partitions for political reasons and the foreign partitions have to be named something different to avoid confusion. >The people that Jordan gets mail from might be confused by what is >referred to as the "compatibility slice" in '.../partition.hlp'. The They are confused that it gets, and perhaps that it doesn't get used in all cases. It only needs to be used for the boot partition (sd0a, perhaps). For the usr partition on sd0, you could use sd0e on the compatibility slice, or equivalently, sd0s2e if sd0s2 is the compatibility slice, or differently, sd0s3a if sd0s2 is the compatibility slice that you don't want to put usr on for some reason and sd0s3 is another FreeBSD slice. >question IMHO really is then: is there a chance of _that_ going away..? Low. sd0[a-h] is the native name. The compatibility slice may become unused on systems that can run DOS. Bruce