Daemon's Advocate article

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Chris Pressey said on Mar  1, 2004 at 23:12:25:
> <extremely_contentious>
> 
> * Let's call a spade a spade - or rather, a partition a partition.
> i.e.
> 
> *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)

I'm not sure how this works if the FreeBSD slice were the first on the
disk, though.

Rahul