What is the difference between Partition, Slices and Mount Points
Info will be appreciated.
Thanks Vasanth
Hi, I will see if I can explain these. Partition- In the MS world and the Linux world, it is a division of your harddrive that can hold data. Slices- In FreeBSD and other UX*X variants along that line, a slice is what we call in Linux and MS a partition. UN*X uses Slices to divide up the harddrive into sections called slices that you will then add more divisions into them called partitions. Confusing Huh? Linux as far as I can tell, doesn't use slices but FreeBSD and other BSD variants does Mount Point- A mount point is simply a directory that you will make the filesystem available to by the process of mounting. Hope this helps. Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."