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| author | Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-06-04 10:48:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-06-04 10:48:46 +0000 |
| commit | 54855801837b3eb2cb8f270f2d2e6f1171526148 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a51769b8818d80afdb28e81f45aad571d24f145 /release | |
| parent | 19566a0c18e0d6001011bd4f198cf1011921f235 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/partition.hlp | 84 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/partition.hlp | 84 |
2 files changed, 84 insertions, 84 deletions
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/partition.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/partition.hlp index f04e2eacc313..edbc9d8f8260 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/partition.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/partition.hlp @@ -6,57 +6,57 @@ works. It's not very hard to understand. A "fully qualified slice name", that is the name of the file we open in /dev to talk to the slice, is optionally broken into 3 parts: - First you have the disk name. Assume we have two SCSI - drives in our system, which gives us `sd0' and `sd1'. + First you have the disk name. Assume we have two SCSI + drives in our system, which gives us `sd0' and `sd1'. - Next you have the "Slice" (or "Master Partition") number, - as seen in the Partition Editor. Assume that our sd0 contains - two slices, a FreeBSD slice and a DOS slice. This gives us - sd0s1 and sd0s2. Let's also say that sd1 is completely devoted - to FreeBSD, so we have only one slice there: sd1s1. + Next you have the "Slice" (or "Master Partition") number, + as seen in the Partition Editor. Assume that our sd0 contains + two slices, a FreeBSD slice and a DOS slice. This gives us + sd0s1 and sd0s2. Let's also say that sd1 is completely devoted + to FreeBSD, so we have only one slice there: sd1s1. - Next, if a slice is a FreeBSD slice, you have a number of - (confusingly named) "partitions" you can put inside of it. - These FreeBSD partitions are where various filesystems or swap - areas live, and using our hypothetical two-SCSI-disk machine - again, we might have something like the following layout on sd0: + Next, if a slice is a FreeBSD slice, you have a number of + (confusingly named) "partitions" you can put inside of it. + These FreeBSD partitions are where various filesystems or swap + areas live, and using our hypothetical two-SCSI-disk machine + again, we might have something like the following layout on sd0: - Name Mountpoint - ---- ---------- - sd0s1a / - sd0s1b <swap space> - sd0s1e /usr + Name Mountpoint + ---- ---------- + sd0s1a / + sd0s1b <swap space> + sd0s1e /usr - Because of historical convention, there is also a short-cut, - or "compatibility slice", that is maintained for easy access - to the first FreeBSD slice on a disk for those programs which - still don't know how to deal with the new slice scheme. - The compatibility slice names for our filesystem above would - look like: + Because of historical convention, there is also a short-cut, + or "compatibility slice", that is maintained for easy access + to the first FreeBSD slice on a disk for those programs which + still don't know how to deal with the new slice scheme. + The compatibility slice names for our filesystem above would + look like: - Name Mountpoint - ---- ---------- - sd0a / - sd0b <swap space> - sd0e /usr + Name Mountpoint + ---- ---------- + sd0a / + sd0b <swap space> + sd0e /usr - FreeBSD automatically maps the compatibility slice to the first - FreeBSD slice it finds (in this case, sd0s1). You may have multiple - FreeBSD slices on a drive, but only the first one may be the - compatibility slice! + FreeBSD automatically maps the compatibility slice to the first + FreeBSD slice it finds (in this case, sd0s1). You may have multiple + FreeBSD slices on a drive, but only the first one may be the + compatibility slice! - The compatibility slice will eventually be phased out, but - it is still important right now for several reasons: + The compatibility slice will eventually be phased out, but + it is still important right now for several reasons: - 1. Some programs, as mentioned before, still don't work - with the slice paradigm and need time to catch up. + 1. Some programs, as mentioned before, still don't work + with the slice paradigm and need time to catch up. - 2. The FreeBSD boot blocks are unable to look for - a root file system in anything but a compatibility - slice right now. This means that our root will always - show up on "sd0a" in the above scenario, even though - it really lives over on sd0s1a and would otherwise be - referred to by its full slice name. + 2. The FreeBSD boot blocks are unable to look for + a root file system in anything but a compatibility + slice right now. This means that our root will always + show up on "sd0a" in the above scenario, even though + it really lives over on sd0s1a and would otherwise be + referred to by its full slice name. Once you understand all this, then the label editor becomes fairly simple. You're either carving up the FreeBSD slices displayed at the diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/partition.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/partition.hlp index f04e2eacc313..edbc9d8f8260 100644 --- a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/partition.hlp +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/partition.hlp @@ -6,57 +6,57 @@ works. It's not very hard to understand. A "fully qualified slice name", that is the name of the file we open in /dev to talk to the slice, is optionally broken into 3 parts: - First you have the disk name. Assume we have two SCSI - drives in our system, which gives us `sd0' and `sd1'. + First you have the disk name. Assume we have two SCSI + drives in our system, which gives us `sd0' and `sd1'. - Next you have the "Slice" (or "Master Partition") number, - as seen in the Partition Editor. Assume that our sd0 contains - two slices, a FreeBSD slice and a DOS slice. This gives us - sd0s1 and sd0s2. Let's also say that sd1 is completely devoted - to FreeBSD, so we have only one slice there: sd1s1. + Next you have the "Slice" (or "Master Partition") number, + as seen in the Partition Editor. Assume that our sd0 contains + two slices, a FreeBSD slice and a DOS slice. This gives us + sd0s1 and sd0s2. Let's also say that sd1 is completely devoted + to FreeBSD, so we have only one slice there: sd1s1. - Next, if a slice is a FreeBSD slice, you have a number of - (confusingly named) "partitions" you can put inside of it. - These FreeBSD partitions are where various filesystems or swap - areas live, and using our hypothetical two-SCSI-disk machine - again, we might have something like the following layout on sd0: + Next, if a slice is a FreeBSD slice, you have a number of + (confusingly named) "partitions" you can put inside of it. + These FreeBSD partitions are where various filesystems or swap + areas live, and using our hypothetical two-SCSI-disk machine + again, we might have something like the following layout on sd0: - Name Mountpoint - ---- ---------- - sd0s1a / - sd0s1b <swap space> - sd0s1e /usr + Name Mountpoint + ---- ---------- + sd0s1a / + sd0s1b <swap space> + sd0s1e /usr - Because of historical convention, there is also a short-cut, - or "compatibility slice", that is maintained for easy access - to the first FreeBSD slice on a disk for those programs which - still don't know how to deal with the new slice scheme. - The compatibility slice names for our filesystem above would - look like: + Because of historical convention, there is also a short-cut, + or "compatibility slice", that is maintained for easy access + to the first FreeBSD slice on a disk for those programs which + still don't know how to deal with the new slice scheme. + The compatibility slice names for our filesystem above would + look like: - Name Mountpoint - ---- ---------- - sd0a / - sd0b <swap space> - sd0e /usr + Name Mountpoint + ---- ---------- + sd0a / + sd0b <swap space> + sd0e /usr - FreeBSD automatically maps the compatibility slice to the first - FreeBSD slice it finds (in this case, sd0s1). You may have multiple - FreeBSD slices on a drive, but only the first one may be the - compatibility slice! + FreeBSD automatically maps the compatibility slice to the first + FreeBSD slice it finds (in this case, sd0s1). You may have multiple + FreeBSD slices on a drive, but only the first one may be the + compatibility slice! - The compatibility slice will eventually be phased out, but - it is still important right now for several reasons: + The compatibility slice will eventually be phased out, but + it is still important right now for several reasons: - 1. Some programs, as mentioned before, still don't work - with the slice paradigm and need time to catch up. + 1. Some programs, as mentioned before, still don't work + with the slice paradigm and need time to catch up. - 2. The FreeBSD boot blocks are unable to look for - a root file system in anything but a compatibility - slice right now. This means that our root will always - show up on "sd0a" in the above scenario, even though - it really lives over on sd0s1a and would otherwise be - referred to by its full slice name. + 2. The FreeBSD boot blocks are unable to look for + a root file system in anything but a compatibility + slice right now. This means that our root will always + show up on "sd0a" in the above scenario, even though + it really lives over on sd0s1a and would otherwise be + referred to by its full slice name. Once you understand all this, then the label editor becomes fairly simple. You're either carving up the FreeBSD slices displayed at the |
