As Jason Thorpe wrote:

>   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.

You're absolutely right.  There used to be a ``README.slices'' someday
explaining this...

-- 
cheers, J"org

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