On 04/07/2011 15:50, tethys ocean wrote: >> * Also keep the correct terminology: FreeBSD mounts UFS partitions, >> > not slices. A slice contains a partition carrying a file system, >> > usually UFS.* > > > *Means that /usr is not slice ?? or /var is not slice? are all these are > UFS ?*
It's just nomenclature. To look like a cool and savvy FreeBSD user,
talk about /partitions/ rather than /slices/.
UFS is the 'Unix File System' -- it describes the way the data are
formatted and managed on the disk. As opposed to, eg. ext3 (Linux)
or NTFS (Windows).
Cheers,
Matthew
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