Daemon's Advocate article
Rahul Siddharthan
rsidd at online.fr
Mon Mar 1 23:47:54 PST 2004
Chris Pressey said on Mar 1, 2004 at 23:39:10:
> > > *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
>
> Yeah, thanks for catching that, my fingers outpaced my brain there.
> I was thinking that I've not seen an equivalent in Windows (at least not
> pre-NTFS....?)
Extended partitions certainly existed back in MS-DOS days. But
I'm not clear how they relate to FreeBSD partitions except that when
FreeBSD's on the last slice linux can mount its partitions as extended
partitions. (Windows, of course, knows nothing about ufs.)
Rahul
More information about the Kernel
mailing list