Benny Lofgren wrote: > Personally, I think it would be a good thing to bring back slices to the > vocabulary. That would emphasize the distinction between physical disk > partitions as they appear in the PC-centric hardware world and logical > partitions/slices that are a subdivision *within* a disk partition. > > Not all architectures even have the PC notion of MBR/GPT partitioning, > but rather use slices directly as the only means to subdivide a disk.
Ironically, I think slice is a rather PC-centric term. Sun systems for instance, use disklabels natively and call the parts within partitions. Demoting "partition" to "slice" is only necessary on PCs (and I think why this term mostly sees use in FreeBSD). It would be silly to use "slice" when talking about Sun machines, because it is not a subdivision of some other partition. Just say MBR (or DOS) partition or BSD partition as needed.
