From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 20:44: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heretic.cybertouch.org (24.69.168.8.on.wave.home.com [24.69.168.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62AE37BB30 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 20:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (lnb@localhost) by heretic.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00690 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 23:42:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lnb@heretic.cybertouch.org) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 23:42:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: size of slices Message-ID: Fax: 905-763-0241 Tel: 905-763-1900 City: Thornhill Province: Ontario Country: Canada MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Fellow FreeBSD'ers I wonder why when installing FreeBSD, when systinstall starts up, and asks for partion (or slice) sizes, if you have a 20 or 30 GB drive, you can tell it to use 10GB for say /usr or make a filesystem called data and tell it to be 10 or 12 GB. Is there some sort of limitation on sizes of filesystems? TIA --lanny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message