Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:37:24 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: difference between partition and slice? Message-ID: <20020813000724.GC48092@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> References: <20020811015144.GE31770@wantadilla.lemis.com> <004f01c24217$15bc53e0$cbf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg>
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On Monday, 12 August 2002 at 18:44:03 +0300, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: > [missing attribution to Greg Lehey] >> In a nutshell: >> >> BIOS BSD >> >> partition slice >> extended partition partition > > That's not correct! > In BIOS you may have up to 4 extended partitions, while in FreeBSD > you haven't such limitation about the partitions. No, you can have a large number of partitions in a BIOS extended partition. I don't know of any fixed limit. FreeBSD is limited to 7 partitions (8 if you ignore the requirement for the c partition to correspond to the entire slice). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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