On 8/16/25 07:50, Atiq Rahman wrote:
> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice” and “partition”. They
are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr case and “partition” for everything else.
Thank you for sharing the fun fact!
Atiq
Hi all!
Just to share my humble opinion..
Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too. These slices
never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is whole disc' - why no. 2??)
Especially for new users without solarish bachground a tool that is
'like fdisk' would be handy - i really don't like format and fdisk cause
i don't really know what they do :-/
On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are sort of this, for
'modern' GPT disc labels.
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i don't need
anything else anymore.
For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one case i did
pre-partinioning to create a pool that is smaller than whole disc for
later mirroing..,
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.
~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i just swap the boot
discs. Its far easier.
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?) really free
spare time to create something more productive.
Just my 2 cents,
Stephan
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