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Clarify some language relating to how disks are laid out in &os;

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Eitan Adler 2013-06-01 15:36:21 +00:00
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
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</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>Each partition-that-contains-a-file-system is stored in what
&os; calls a <firstterm>slice</firstterm>. Slice is
&os;'s term for what the common call partitions, and again,
this is because of &os;'s &unix; background. Slices are
numbered, starting at 1, through to 4.</para>
<para>Disks in &os; are divided into slices, referred to in
&windows; as partitions, which are numbered from 1 to 4. These
are then then divided into partitions, which contain file
systems, and are labeled using lettesrs.</para>
<indexterm><primary>slices</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>partitions</primary></indexterm>