Re: [Xen-users] bsd disklabel & lvm

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Heigl wrote:
> 2007/7/21, Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Florian Heigl wrote:
> >
> > > For the other posters...
> > > the disk label defines slices, not partitions. those ain't extended
> > > partitions either.
> > > this is a different scheme than msdos's, a bit less stupid in it's 
> > design.
> > Both, "slices" and "partitions" are used synonymously by the BSDs.
> I just tried to point out why kpartx can't help accessing the OpenBSD
> data in wd0a|b
> Thanks for taking the chance of making that pointless.
Was he correct that they're used synonymously? If so, then the slices 
are what other operating systems call partitions, and your explanation 
was merely confusing. If not, what's the difference?
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