On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:50:27PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is it possible to encapsulate filesystems inside partition slices (ala > > BSD) in Linux? > > You mean use a BSD disklabel, instead of an IBM/Microsoft-style > partition table? Sure. Did you never notice the "b" command > in /sbin/fdisk?
I've noticed it, but I'm a bit hesitant to try out making filesystems inside slices rather than in partitions. Anyway, I'll try it out... any caveats on placing native Linux filesystems inside BSD-style partition slices (aside from kernel support)? Any difference in logical device assignments (say BSD-style slices are enumerated like how logical partitions are presented)? I was also wondering what can be the advantages/disadvantages of using slices compared to encapsulating filesystems directly into partitions, and why Linux uses partitions instead of using slices as employed by some free and non-free operating systems. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
