svn commit: r41811 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Log:
>  Clarify some language relating to how disks are laid out in &os;
>
>  Submitted by:	crees
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml	Sat Jun  1 15:23:47 2013	(r41810)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml	Sat Jun  1 15:36:21 2013	(r41811)
> @@ -1380,11 +1380,10 @@ root     5211  0.0  0.2  3620  1724   2
>       </tgroup>
>     </informaltable>
>
> -    <para>Each partition-that-contains-a-file-system is stored in what
> -      &os; calls a <firstterm>slice</firstterm>.  Slice is
> -      &os;'s term for what the common call partitions, and again,
> -      this is because of &os;'s &unix; background.  Slices are
> -      numbered, starting at 1, through to 4.</para>
> +    <para>Disks in &os; are divided into slices, referred to in
> +      &windows; as partitions, which are numbered from 1 to 4.  These
> +      are then then divided into partitions, which contain file
> +      systems, and are labeled using lettesrs.</para>

This seems silently MBR-centric, though we are using GPT by default in our 
installer IIRC...
This is the "basics" chapter, though, so I'm not sure how best to change 
things (and that would probably end up a larger project).

-Ben