Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:45:22 +1100 From: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <craig.williamson@ericsson.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux and FreeBSD partitioning question. Message-ID: <A238222A1695D311B41300508B102DC89EAB63@enzwnnt001.epa.ericsson.se>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi All, I'm a new FreeBSD user with 12 months Linux experience. I have a 40 Gb drive that I want to carve up between Linux and FreeBSD. I'll show you my idea for partitioning the drive and can you tell me any other suggestions I could do to partition it properly. Linux Distro: Gentoo Linux 1.0 FreeBSD: FreeBSD 4.5 I want to use the Linux Boot Loader which is GRUB. 40Gb drive /boot 100Mb Linux /boot 100Mb FreeBSD swap 512Mb Linux swap 512Mb FreeBSD / 9Gb Linux / 9Gb FreeBSD The installation guide doesn't say anything about /boot partitioning, is this OK to use. The reason I am using this is to make sure GRUB doesn't fall over with BSD being at the back end of the drive. I have 256Mb physical RAM installed which justifies the 512Mb swap size. If any of you can think of a better way of partitioning the drive it would be great. Cheers. Craig Williamson [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2654.19"> <TITLE>Linux and FreeBSD partitioning question.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT> </P> <P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm a new FreeBSD user with 12 months Linux experience. I have a 40 Gb drive that I want to carve up between Linux and FreeBSD. I'll show you my idea for partitioning the drive and can you tell me any other suggestions I could do to partition it properly.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linux Distro: Gentoo Linux 1.0</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">FreeBSD: FreeBSD 4.5</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I want to use the Linux Boot Loader which is GRUB.</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">40Gb drive</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/boot 100Mb Linux</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/boot 100Mb FreeBSD</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">swap 512Mb Linux</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">swap 512Mb FreeBSD</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/ 9Gb Linux</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/ 9Gb FreeBSD</FONT> </P> <P> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The installation guide doesn't say anything about /boot partitioning, is this OK to use. The reason I am using this is to make sure GRUB doesn't fall over with BSD being at the back end of the drive. I have 256Mb physical RAM installed which justifies the 512Mb swap size. If any of you can think of a better way of partitioning the drive it would be great. Cheers.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Craig Williamson</FONT> </P> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>
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