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 
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> and here it's quite confusing if you call both things by the same name.
So it's the moral equivalent of an extended partition, though not 
exactly the same?

> on linux you'd issue (from memory)some mount -t ufs -o
> ufstype=<something>,<number>.
>
> I've had to access partitions with a bsd label & slices inside from
> linux on rare occasions, but it's quite an annoying thing to do even
> without them embedded inside a dos partition.