DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2004-03
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Re: Daemon's Advocate article
>> *BSD The Rest of the World DFly
>> ---- --------------------- ----
>> slice partition partition
>> partition N/A subpartition
> ^^^
> I think the N/A should be "extended partition". At least, my disk has
> four slices ("partitions" in rest-of-the-world speak), of which the
> first 3 are windows, linux ext3 and linux swap and the fourth is
> FreeBSD; and I can mount the FreeBSD (sub-)partitions under linux as
> /dev/hda5, /dev/hda7 etc. (/dev/hda6=FreeBSD swap)
but lets not call a spade a rake.
extended partitions are different. afaik, you can place a slice in an
extended partition. if you want to.
~ibotty
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