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From: crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing swap between FreeBSD and Linux, not enough partitions
Date: 2 Jun 1997 13:08:37 -0600
Organization: Just me, Los Alamos, NM
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In article <01bc6f74$d1700440$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de>,
Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
=
= FreeBSD doesn't use one DOS/FDISK-partition per filesystem
= as Linux does. It subdivides one single DOS/FDISK-partition
= (which the FreeBSD folks chose to call "slices") further into
= the regular filesystems /, /usr, /var, etc. (which the FreeBSD
= folks chose to call "partitions" - this is consistent with BSD
= but somewhat confusing, since the SysVR4 crowd did it the other
= way round. ;-)
Or, one could say that SVR4's usage is somewhat confusing since BSD
predates SVR4... :)
Sorry, the Devil made me do it...
--
Best regards,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby Los Alamos, NM "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com www.swcp.com/~crs Life Member since 1965