Q&A
| Q1: | Most other operating systems only have one set of partitions; why does FreeBSD have this business of slices and BSD partitions? |
| A1: | It's mostly because of compatibility. FreeBSD is designed to interoperate well with other operating systems. In the way FreeBSD disks are set up, only one of the four BIOS partitions that the BIOS is capable of addressing needs to be taken up with the FreeBSD operating system: The other three can be used for Linux, Windows, and so on. Within the single FreeBSD BIOS partition (also known as a slice), FreeBSD can have a larger number of sub-partitions (BSD partitions) available to itself, without using up more BIOS partitions that could otherwise be used by other operating systems. |
| Q2: | It takes my system two or ... |
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