UFS: Difference between revisions

From OSDev.wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
[unchecked revision][unchecked revision]
Content added Content deleted
(ported Filesystems - BSD FFS subsection)
 
m (added category tag)
Line 4: Line 4:


Not to be confused with the [[FFS (Amiga)|Amiga FFS]], the BSD FFS / UFS is commonly used on hard disks for the *BSD and derivatives. What is usually called a "partition" is called a "slice" in *BSD, which is in turn subdivided into "partitions" - a naming pattern that leads to some confusion, and to rather cryptic device names (ad0s1c for the third partition on the second slice on the primary master ATAPI hard drive...).
Not to be confused with the [[FFS (Amiga)|Amiga FFS]], the BSD FFS / UFS is commonly used on hard disks for the *BSD and derivatives. What is usually called a "partition" is called a "slice" in *BSD, which is in turn subdivided into "partitions" - a naming pattern that leads to some confusion, and to rather cryptic device names (ad0s1c for the third partition on the second slice on the primary master ATAPI hard drive...).

[[Category:Filesystems]]

Revision as of 14:03, 6 December 2006

This page is a stub.
You can help the wiki by accurately adding more contents to it.

About FFS / UFS (BSD)

Not to be confused with the Amiga FFS, the BSD FFS / UFS is commonly used on hard disks for the *BSD and derivatives. What is usually called a "partition" is called a "slice" in *BSD, which is in turn subdivided into "partitions" - a naming pattern that leads to some confusion, and to rather cryptic device names (ad0s1c for the third partition on the second slice on the primary master ATAPI hard drive...).