Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should root partition be first partition? Message-ID: <20100208141830.GD56831@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:09:48AM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed > by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always > have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the > first partition or can it follow swap space? It should work, but there are so many things that might assume to have / (root) as the first partition on a bootable drive that maybe it is best to just stick with that convention. ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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