In some mail I received from Jason Thorpe, sie wrote
> 
> On Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:32:00 -0800 
>  "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> wrote:
> 
>  > >I'd like to report that partition slices in FreeBSD 2.1.0 and NetBSD 1.1
>  > >aren't 100% compatible.
>  > 
>  > I wasn't aware NetBSD even *had* "slices".
> 
> AFAIK, we *don't*.  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.

More to the point, it allows me to have more than one "DOS partition" as
BSD and mount filesystems from them...

darren