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From: scott@crux.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: file system HELP HELP HELP
Date: 16 Jul 1996 11:46:00 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: Michael White's message of Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:31:03 -0700
In article <31EAAA87.1136@ucdavis.edu> Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:31:03 -0700
> Organization: University of California, Davis
>
> I set it up with sysinstall. The reason I had set up two partitions
> was I wanted the /, swap and /usr slices to be under the first 500MB (as
> initally I was having install problems... though in hind sight it may
> not have been necessary). Also, I am using the terms partitions and
> slices as I understood them to be used. Dos/Windows/Linux all require
> you use partitions to seperate different filesystems. FreeBSD is able
> to allow you to define slices on the disk (thus, you are limited to
> 4 partitions on a disk, but you may have many more BSD slices). Is this
> the incorrect usage of the terms?
Yep, wrong way around. Four _slices_ per disk (what DOS fdisk calls
partitions), and a bunch of BSD _partitions_ in each slice (8, IIRC).
In general each OS will want a slice of its own, and is then free to
partition this up however it likes. There's a good explanation of all
this in some file on the FreeBSD CD (can't remember exactly where, and
the machine is on the other side of town, switched off).
Share and enjoy.
Scott
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