From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 15 19:16:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9A616A409 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:16:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A932A13C4A3 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6FJGAMd011131; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:16:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 06D23B822; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:16:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:16:09 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Razmig K Message-ID: <20070715191609.GA52575@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Razmig K , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4c0d70650707150733o35b0b02cq94808de762a630f9@mail.gmail.com> <20070715150528.GA45166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4c0d70650707151057o7b5752ddid62143e1745b2254@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4c0d70650707151057o7b5752ddid62143e1745b2254@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making use of a Windows drive 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: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:16:12 -0000 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:57:52PM +0300, Razmig K wrote: > On 7/15/07, Roland Smith wrote: >> Do you need partitions (bsdlabels) on ad1s3? Or to put it another way, >> do you want to subdevide it in pieces that you can mount on different >> mount points? >=20 > Well that certainly is a good idea. I was just pointing out that it is not _necessary_, AFAIK.=20 > From what I understand, I can divide the slice into partitions, a > through h, and that b, c, and d are special. Does this mean that I can > safely use any combination of the rest as partitions and mount them Well, 'c' is special in the sense that it is a raw partition representing the whole disk. You shouldn't use that. IIRC, 'b' is usually used for swap, and you can only boot from 'a'. So if you're not interested in using the disk as swap space, or booting =66rom it, you can use any partition but 'c'. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGmnJ5EnfvsMMhpyURAhihAKCeQAYlY5Qq7g55DZfgNeX7lwEMZQCfUmFc icVpDmKsD3R3hRk1srZ0DTo= =vONj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--