[CLUE-Tech] FreeBSD [was Re: Nessus]

[black at galaxy.silvren.com]

Yes, a "slice" is the equivalent to a "partition" in the
linux/dos/winders/whatever world.

BSD further confuses it by just calling extended partitions "partitions."

When I set up BSD I used two primary partitions, and then put a few
extended partitions under each for /, /var, /tmp, /usr and swap. There are
still 2 primary partitions left to install Linux or whatever else.

Thanks to everyone for the great FreeBSD info. I didn't know about the
port stuff, that's really awesome. I got X working without basically no
fuss, and I have to agree that it's a hell of a lot quicker not loading
all the KDE/Gnome gunk. twm may not look cool, but it does what I need.
Maybe I'll try fluxbox.

I did try gentoo, and didn't think it was worth all the fuss of compiling
from scratch. It was certainly interesting though.

Anyone see the sloashdot post about how they compared a custom built
gentoo system vs. a mandrake and (I think redhat) install? For whatever
reason the gentoo box was slower on most everything, hardware being equal.
Seems like an anomaly, but it raised my eyebrows nonetheless.

Thanks again, you guys are great!

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, David Anselmi wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> [...]
> > I especially didn't like the slices approach to hard drive partitioning
> > and the fact that only primary partitions are supported.  I had to do a
> > lot of juggling to make linux and FreeBSD coexist on my harddrive.
>
> Looks to me like FreeBSD supports more than primary partitions.  If you
> read far enough in section 2.5.2 of the install guide[1] it says "There
> can only be four physical slices on a disk, but you can have logical
> slices inside physical slices of the appropriate type."
>
> In FreeBSD, slice means what partition does in Linux.  They work the
> same -- making an extended slice allows you to put logical slices in it.
>
> Slices can contain several partitions, so there is an extra layer of
> division compared to Linux.  A partition contains one filesystem in
> either OS.
>
> Seems that if you get the terminology straight getting FreeBSD, Linux,
> and Win* to coexist should be easy.
>
> [1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
>
> Dave
>
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