Daemon's Advocate article

[ibotty]

>> *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