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For all practical intents and purposes, BSD's use partitions. They just call them differently because they use a different technical implementation. But they're
by tremon 5y ago
For all practical intents and purposes, BSD's use partitions. They just call them differently because they use a different technical implementation. But they're still just as static and just as limiting as regular partitions.
- MobiusHorizons 5y agoThe important distinction for me is that the tools for working with partitions exist on openBSD (eg fdisk) but those deal with mbr/ gpt partitions, and won’t tell you about slices. So practically it’s a distinction you need to understand if you intend on working with them.
- anthk 5y agoNo, you slice up an OpenBSD partition (GPT/MBR/Apple...) into several parts (subvolumes to get mounted).
- nix23 5y agoIt's the same...GPT is the partition-table, you even write it yourself: >into several parts parts are partitions and not subvolumes, a subvolume is a filesystem or volume-manager on top of a partition and it's size/quota etc is defined BY the filesystem or the volume-manager (look up btrfs subvolumes, zfs-filesystems or lvm).