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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/16/25 07:50, Atiq Rahman wrote:<br>
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<div>> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice” and
“partition”. They are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr case and
“partition” for everything else.</div>
<div>Thank you for sharing the fun fact!</div>
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<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Just to share my humble opinion..</p>
<p>Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too. These
slices never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is whole disc' -
why no. 2??) </p>
<p>Especially for new users without solarish bachground a tool that
is 'like fdisk' would be handy - i really don't like format and
fdisk cause i don't really know what they do :-/</p>
<p>On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are sort of
this, for 'modern' GPT disc labels. <br>
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i don't need
anything else anymore.</p>
<p>For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one case i did
pre-partinioning to create a pool that is smaller than whole disc
for later mirroing..,<br>
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.</p>
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<p>~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i just swap
the boot discs. Its far easier. <br>
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?) really
free spare time to create something more productive.</p>
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<p>Just my 2 cents,</p>
<p>Stephan</p>
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