On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:56:27PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > 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. >
Ackk... I'm now further confusing myself... I've just reread the docs, and here's what FreeBSD docs imply: "slice" == "primary partition", while "partitions" are subdivisions inside a "slice", though not equivalent of the notion of extended partition. [the Solaris docs gave me much confusion on the concept... I guess I ain't reading it right] I'll re-phrase, given the clarification above: any caveats on placing native Linux filesystems inside BSD-style slice partitions (aside from kernel support)? Any difference in logical device assignment (say if slice partitions would be treated like logical partitions as encapsulated by extended partitions, as notioned by IBM/Microsoft partition-table usage)? -- 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]
