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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okay, I give up. Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:21:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4k5ulj$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199603271928.LAA25885@kithrup.com> <Pine.BSI.3.91.960328154736.6597A-100000@cais.cais.com> <4k1fmp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k4i2q$4dd@news2.cais.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) writes: > J, now that I have spent enough time with disklabel and disktab to have > begun to recognize how *fundamentally* different the concept is from, oh, > silly me, MSDOS?, and the subsequent realignment permitted me to go back > and re-read the related manpages...well, all I can say is that *somebody* > in the *BSD scheme had or has serious shortcomings insofar as > *explanation* is concerned. That's quite possible. Remember, Real Unices don't have slices, only partitions, and they always own(ed) the entire disk. That's the background where the man pages have been written. The slice aka. fdisk table scenario has been plugged in later. So now, *we* are already ``tainted'' in that we know what a partition is, how the disk is subdivided etc. Since you seem to have just climbed up this hill, how about submitting a different explanation for it? Either, make the man page clearer, or submit an entry for the FAQ or handbook? You are *most* welcome! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)