From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 9 11:46:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06424 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eagle.ns.net (root@eagle.ns.net [204.75.146.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06298 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (rfg.ns.net [207.159.10.82]) by eagle.ns.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15322; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14176; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:46:40 -0700 To: Julian Elischer cc: djv@bedford.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I screw up? Installing FreeBSD and cylinder boundaries. In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 09 Jun 1998 08:33:58 -0700. X-Copyright: (c) 1998 Ronald F. Guilmette; All rights reserved. Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 11:46:40 -0700 Message-ID: <14174.897418000@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , you wrote: >There need be no correspondence between cylinder boundaries and >BSD partitions. >the 'cylinder groups' used in FFS are a misnomer with historical >ties. > >There can be as many swap partitions as you want >(though at the moment they should be called 'b' (also for historical >reasons) so effectively there is only one per FDISK slice. >They have no allignment requirements. Thanks again. -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message