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Re: [Xen-users] bsd disklabel & lvm


  • To: Xen list <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Mark Weinem <weinem@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:32:08 +0200
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:50:52 -0700
  • List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>

Florian Heigl wrote:

> for sake of compatibilty or more complicated layouts it commonly looks
> like this/
> disk -> dos partition label -> dos partition 1 -> bsd label -> slices 1-12

>From the FreeBSD Handbook:

        "FreeBSD calls the PC BIOS partitions slices so as not to confuse them
with traditional BSD partitions."


BSD partitions are not called slices!


So it's

disk -> dos partition label -> slice 1 (or dos partition 1) -> bsd label
-> bsd partitions 1-12


Best regards, Mark Weinem

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