[Gllug] DOS partitions

[kim at aldigital.co.uk]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:50:03PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:

> I still prefer the 'divvy' method used by SCO, as under that scheme you can
> have 4 partitions with 6 or 7 'divvied' file-systems on each giving
> 24-28 file systems in total.

is this not the wierdness used in *BSD and solaris land?

and the reasoning behind this, is device endependance, IIRC.

yours,

kim
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