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From: Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Disks under FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:13:56 +0200
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After I have played with my MO drive making filesystems, etc
let's see if I have understood correctly how does it work.

	As it's stated in the manual, FreeBSD uses a two-level
partitioning system; the typical PC partitions, and BSD partitions.
The PC partitions are called "slices".

	When I label a disk, I'm not really labelling the disk,
but the FreeBSD partition in it. Is it OK? So if I have created,
say, partition 0 as a FreeBSD partition, then I could
"disklabel /dev/rsdXs1" and it works. (At least it works with the
od driver I have installed from the /xperiment section).

	Now one question:

	If I don't make fdisk partitions and directly I 
write a disklabel to "the disk", is it compatible with other BSD
systems? For example, could I read it on a NeXT> From what I have
seen, the NeXT seems to place a disklabel in the disk in the same
way that FreeBSD does if you "disklabel /dev/rod0".

	Borja.
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