On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > In FreeBSd world, a slice is the primary division of the disk. It is > generally referred to as a primary partition in Microsloth land. But > that is the same.
IIRC It's actually more of an IBM PC term than a Microsoft term. I'm being very pedantic here, but I think it's more logical to think of a slice occupying a primary partition, in the the same way as you might say an integer occupies a word. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"