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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!sollube.sarenet.es!jorge 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 Organization: SAREnet, S.A. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31780214.41C67EA6@we.lc.ehu.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-bi-11.sarenet.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) 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. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * CompuServe: 100015,3502 SPAIN * ***********************************************************************