Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:11:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: terry@lambert.org, peter@hw.nl, ping@stepnet.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... Message-ID: <199701171811.LAA08771@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970116223923.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 16, 97 10:39:23 pm
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> > 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. This is actually DOS terminology... the only terminology these people are likely to be familiar with, considering that they can't understand how to install the system to get familiar with the new 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. I was talking to a DOS person. BTW: you may not have noticed, but DOS users outnumber BSD users by a large proportion... The terminology should be irrelevent anyway. When is devfs going to be the default so I can work on deltas to it to make the terminology irrelevent? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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