Re: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1

2013-05-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 May 2013, Polytropon wrote: See this comparison: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html There is a little information on the common types here,

slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1

2013-05-27 Thread J Ronald
During the installation of FreeBSD 9.1 using bsdintall, it seems the concept has been changed. In the Partition Editor, using GPT, no slice concept, no partition that using a/b/c/d. Is the partition mechanism simplified here? ___

Re: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1

2013-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 May 2013 21:13:44 -0700 (PDT), J Ronald wrote: During the installation of FreeBSD 9.1 using bsdintall, it seems the concept has been changed. In the Partition Editor, using GPT, no slice concept, no partition that using a/b/c/d. That is correct. Instead of the MBR-style partition