From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 23:48:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC1F16A40F for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE23243D6D for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:48:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6BD13302D; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:18:39 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3FFF99C296; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:18:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:18:39 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Agus Message-ID: <20061019234839.GJ96445@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+/c+wG9PuVDVAlsu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted? 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: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:48:46 -0000 --+/c+wG9PuVDVAlsu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 19 October 2006 at 20:29:07 -0300, Agus wrote: > Hi all. I was reading the installation of freebsd and get that only > partitions, sorry, labels a to h are allowed. is this so? Yes. Also, you can't use 'c' for a partition, since it represents the whole disk, and on one disk at least you'll need a swap partition, so 6 is the maximum number of file systems you could create. That's not just adequate, it's far too many. > So if i want to have the following scheme: > / > /home > /usr > /usr/local > /tmp > /var > /var/log > /homeb > > Can i make this? cause i tried, but i get an X in the label... You can't make partitions like this. But why do you want to? There's nothing to stop you making a single root file system and directories of these names. My recommendation in "The Complete FreeBSD" (http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/) is to create a root file system of 8 to 10 GB and a /home file system for the rest of the disk. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --+/c+wG9PuVDVAlsu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOA7XIubykFB6QiMRAn/DAJ0WAxwwUnE8tbt6+0XNq8BfZa10AwCeIH+h 1L/z4J9KMN0+d/pUQJcSt/k= =wq1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+/c+wG9PuVDVAlsu--