On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote:
If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains
a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call
it a slice (slice == "DOS primary partition"). In this case,
there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS
file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support
for partitioning.
Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated'
mode, containing nothing except the filesystem.
"Dangerously dedicated" refers to a disk with a bsdlabel partition table
and boot block. Floppies don't have even that, it's just a raw
filesystem.
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