In message <4e6f26d1.GZdzm/zhxjjqfow1%[email protected]>, [email protected]
.com writes:
>Freddie Cash <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Unix partitioning has always been this way:
>>   - create partition on disk for OS
>>   - create sub-partitions for filesystems

No, it has not.

In fact, it is only on PC like hardware that you can reliably share
a disk between different mutually competitive operating systems.

Most "unix-machines" don't have a concept of what you call partitions,
and neither did BSD unix until 386BSD introduced it.

Until then: One OS, one disk(-pack|-drive).

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