Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:14:56 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition naming [Was: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping] Message-ID: <199701170014.TAA17309@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970115100101.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >> >>> Ok, i've realized that we ``only'' support 30 slices either. >> >> Per partition? >>> No. You're confusing terms. :-) >> Actually, I was thinking of Solaris x86, in which the term `partition' >> is used in the x86 tradition of the stuff recorded at the beginning of >> the HDD and edited with `fdisk' and its ilk. > Sadly, yes. I wonder how they kept congruency with Solaris/Sparc. > Did they add an fdisk table to the latter, in order to keep the same > terminology? :) No, they added an fdisk table to the x86. Since this would only change device names, and only the ones used in /etc/mnttab, it wasn't a big deal. I don't believe Solaris/Sparc supports multi-OS partitioning (what other OS would you run on a Sparc?) (Hey, everybody, let's start a FreeBSD/Sparc team...) although it does support slicing. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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