On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:13:44AM +0100, Georg Rehfeld wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> seems I'm stupid.
> 
> Almost everyone here uses the abbrevation "DLE" where I would use the
> term "partition" and I can't find or think of any good expansion. Note,
> that english isn't my first language.
> 
> What, please, is a "DLE"? May it mean:
> 
>  Down Loadable Entity ??? Stupid.
>  Do Less Errors ??? Stupid again.
>  Hmmmm ...

You "Enter" the items you want to back up in the "DiskList".
Thus they are DiskList Entries.

General usage was to describe them as you did, partitions,
or file systems.  But in fact they do not have to be either.
They can be directory trees, or multiple trees, or trees
with some branches cut off.  So the more generic term, DLE
was coined.

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