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SubjectRe: Parition Slices
Adam Sulmicki writes:
> Richard Gooch writes:
> -> Hi, Adam.
> ->
> ->> ->When this was discussed a year ago, it was my understanding that
> ->> ->multiple BSD slices (for example) could fit into a partition (be it
> ->> ->primary or logical). Is this not the case?
> ->> ->
> ->> ->If not, what is the complete story with partitioning, slicing and all
> ->> ->the rest? At which levels can things be subdivided?
> ->>
> ->> Re, my last email.
> ->>
> ->> On the 2nd though, I'm not sure if I answered what you were asking
> ->> about.
> ->>
> ->> Was my email answering what you were asking, or did you ask about
> ->> something else. Like slices inside of slices which are extended
> ->> parition.
>
> ->I think that's what I was asking. Examples: can you put *BSD slices
> ->into a DOS logical partition?
>
> IIRC the answer is no. But it was a long while since I installed FreeBSD.
>
> ->Can you put Solaris slices into a *BSD
> ->slice?
>
> I don't know, but I would guess that answer is no.
>
> It is b/c bsd-slices have no limits, if you decide to go with bsd-slices
> as primary paritions, then you can have as many of them as you want. It is
> only for ms-dos style paritions to limit them to 4. [I could be wrong on
> that though]
>
> But I also think Solaris-x86 does not understand bsd-style paritions.
>
> ->Can you put Solaris slices into a DOS logical partition?
>
> I don't think so. No proof on it, but if bsd can't then I don't think
> solaris can either.
>
> ->Basically, what are the rules which limit when you can put inside of
> ->what and how many times you can subdivide?
>
> dos has limit on 4 (3) primaries, so it came up with idea of extended
> paritions. I though there was limit on 4 extended, but I could be wrong.
> If we want stay MS-dos compatibile, we want to use ms-dos style paritions
> as primary partitions.
>
> Other styles (like bsd) don't have limit on primaries, so there is no
> need for extended paritions. Consequently there is no support for
> "slices" inside of paritions.
>
>
>
> At least it is how I understand those things..
>
>
> PS: You may want to forward it to linux-kernel, perhaps someone else
> can add more.

Done. Hopefully someone will have the time and energy to clean up this
mess. It gives me a headache.

Regards,

Richard....

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