From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 12:54: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FDB37B9C7 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:53:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-219.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.219] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA05099; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:54:28 +1100 From: Danny To: R Joseph Wright , chris@tourneyland.com Subject: Re: Whoops - I forgot how to do partitioning Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:53:40 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hou-freebsd@cityscope.net References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022507551800.00331@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello -Why not simply use the "a" command - It does everything for you automatically On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I'm reinstalling FreeBSD on a machine of mine (why the heck not), and I > > realize I've forgotten everything I know about setting partitions and then > > labelling them. I believe before I had 1 slice with 3 partitions: a swap, > > something for var, and then the rest. But I almost certainly have that wrong. > > > > I looked in the handbook, the FAQs, and the tutorials listed on the .org > > page and couldn't find anything. And since my copy of The Complete FreeBSD > > won't be here for another week, I'm a bit stuck. > > > > Can anyone point me to somewhere that will refresh my memory? > > When you get to the partition editor in /stand/sysinstall, you can use the > option "a" to have it automatically create them for you. It will probably > give you 40MB for /, 20MB for /var, double your ram for swap, and the rest > /usr. > Last time I installed, I didn't use the "a" option because I wanted to > make /var a link to /usr/var. So I made 40MB /, 256MB swap, and the rest > /usr. The installation complained that I had no /var, but I gently > assured it that all was well, and went on with the install as usual. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message