On Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32:00 -0800 
 "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote:

 > >I'd like to report that partition slices in FreeBSD 2.1.0 and NetBSD 1.1
 > >aren't 100% compatible.
 > 
 > I wasn't aware NetBSD even *had* "slices".

AFAIK, we *don't*.  I think the FreeBSD notion of "slices" is what's 
created by the DOS partition table.  FreeBSD get's a "slice" of the disk 
(we call this the "NetBSD portion of the disk") and partitions it up.  

This is based on quick scans of the FreeBSD code ... I could be totally 
wrong.

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