From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 4: 5:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.usls.edu (linux1.usls.edu [202.47.133.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E2615EF1 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 04:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francis@usls.edu) Received: by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 35436A4CA; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:59:46 +0800 (PHT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atlas.usls.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320DF7D91; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:59:46 +0800 (PHT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:59:46 +0800 (PHT) From: "Francis A. Vidal" To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Invalid partition table? In-Reply-To: <37C5EED2.1171630@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > > the reason why i want to create two fbsd slices on one hard drive is that > > i want to make use of the excess space on da0 for the vinum volume. > > Glad to see that you've fixed your problem, but I felt like telling > you that vinum will quite happily use a partition inside your FreeBSD > slice, so there's no need to make 2 slices. yes, i realized that after re-installing FreeBSD again on the machine :) the `partition' and `slice' terms just confused me but everything's clear now. i'm building a mail server that i want to be scalable so i need not worry about adding space to the mail spool. vinum really solves problem of scalability and management. -- francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message