From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 21:29:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B7A10656AC for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:29:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp7.server.rpi.edu (smtp7.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1918FC69 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp7.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o19KKCiw003194; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:20:13 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB383B25CD@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:20:12 -0500 To: Peter Steele , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 20.00] 22490(-25) X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.227 Cc: Subject: Re: Should root partition be first partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:29:14 -0000 At 8:09 AM -0600 2/8/10, 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? In the world of MBR partitioning, there is some situation where it's important that the root partition be 'a'. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was. Probably something having to do with the boot loader. I do remember running into it once when I had the root partition as 'd' by mistake. But that was several years ago, so I don't remember the details. In any case, I would not expect the same problems to come up once you're using gpart partitioning. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu