From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 00:15:30 2003 Return-Path: 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 4BF1437B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE9E43F75 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sweetleaf@myrealbox.com) Received: from KroNiC.example.org SweeTLeaF@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [12.210.147.136]$ on Novell NetWare; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:15:23 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:15:33 -0500 From: sweetleaf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030620021533.48b3410c.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> Organization: personal X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: how many partitions on a slice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:15:30 -0000 I choose to use the entire disk during freebsd install. Ok, that creates 1 really large slice correct? Now within this slice how may partitions cam there be? I tried setting up /root /tmp /home /var /usr /sandbox/ /private /storage ..... after adding sandbox and attempting to add /private and /storage i saw that the partitions looked different in the freebsd disk setup tool. I continued anyway but upon the system setting up the previous entries and formatting them i received messages that /private and /storate were not mountable or something like that...anyway i had to start over and only add six partitions..well other that the swap. Should i setup 2 slices? here is my current setup with the six partitions. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 290M 274M -7.3M 103% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1f 965M 2.0K 888M 0% /home /dev/ad0s1g 965M 2.0K 888M 0% /private /dev/ad0s1e 484M 12K 445M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1h 33G 1.7G 29G 6% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 145M 9.7M 124M 7% /var Thanks in ./adv for all the help. I would also like to take the time to thank the freebsd team and others whom contribute and make freebsd what it is. I have used openbsd for several yrs now...firewalls, routers, IDS etc.. but have remained reliant on windows for a desktop but i am proud to say that i have deleted that virus off desktop and am replacing it with feebsd, much successfully i might add. I tip my hat to you fine folks, God bless.