Date: 25 Jan 2003 22:28:01 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, trhodes@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/35951; disklabel(8) patch; PLEASE REVIEW Message-ID: <24bs24l91q.s24@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <15923.5475.901797.37221@guru.mired.org> References: <xd8yxdnf35.yxd@localhost.localdomain> <15923.5475.901797.37221@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > You say there may be one to four slices. disklabel works fine on > extended slices, so there can be more than four of them. It's not > clear that the disklabel docs should explain extended slices. Whoops. I had forgotten about ad0s5, etc. I think the manpage might as well mention them if the program (and the kernel) supports them. I needn't explain about booting to them with an advanced boot loader, etc. It looks like it won't change much but mostly require an explanation of why there can be more than four slices. I might try to avoid mentioning the primary/secondary slice difference and just refer to the primary slices as the first four. This would avoid the need to use the contested term "extended". (It's my strong opinion, shared by many document writers, that in IBM-PC jargon, an extended partition is a primary partition which contains additional "logical disks", which I would translate to "secondary slices" for s5, s6, etc., and "extended slice" to the "primary slice" which contains them. If I need to introduce terms for these concepts, I'll probably have go looking for some IBM-PC or IDE/ATA documentation to see what they used.) Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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