Difference between Partition, Slices and Mount Points
Hi List, What is the difference between Partition, Slices and Mount Points Info will be appreciated. Thanks Vasanth __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
On Saturday 16 November 2002 00:08, Vasanth K . S wrote:
Hi List,
What is the difference between Partition,
A prepared section of your hard drive. Can be up to all the disk. A drive such as /dev/hda will have numbered partitions /dev/hda1 ... etc.
Slices and
I think this is what Sun Microsystems call a partition.
Mount Points
The directory in the file system where you 'mount' a partition (acurately: the filesystem on the partition) for access. So if you have a directory /mnt and you type mount /dev/hdd2 the second partition on the secondary slave ide drive will me 'mounted' on /mnt for use. type (in a console or terminal window): man mount man fstab and others... Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"
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."
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