Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:56:28 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual boot; Linux, FreeBSD Message-ID: <200606112156.30310.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200606110211.k5B2BTYD014987@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200606110211.k5B2BTYD014987@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > that is the same. IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being very pedantic here, but I think it's more logical to think of a slice occupying a primary partition, in the the same way as you might say an integer occupies a word.
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