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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!news From: stonebrother@sduteam.com (stonebrother) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More partitions than default devices? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:29:42 GMT Organization: California State University Sacramento Lines: 23 Message-ID: <335f1529.2917713@news.csus.edu> References: <5jap4r$32@news.ox.ac.uk> <335C09FE.10@OntheNet.com.au> <5ji7mi$dbj@news.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: @u0104-p07.dialin.csus.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39661 On 22 Apr 1997 11:33:38 GMT, long@njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk (Neil J Long) wrote: >i.e for a scsi disk sd0 >fdisk can be used to generate 4 'disks' or slices >sd0s1, sd0s2, sd0s3, sd0s4 > >each of these can then be divided up for use as filesystems or swap > >sd0s1a, sd0s1b, sd0s1c, sd0s1d, sd0s1e, sd0s1f, sd0s1g, sd0s1h > I am a newbie to BSD Can someone explain it to me, why we want to partition to a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, if we have four partition. Whats the pros for slicing it into so many pieces =) rgd, stonebrother Stonebrother Newbie IN BSD