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Date:      Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:40:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Joe Groff <ognir@humboldt1.com>
To:        Abe@Nerdy.Org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD help
Message-ID:  <199908090340.UAA14274@home.humboldt1.com>
In-Reply-To: <000701bee213$20e3ab40$668767cf@jaspa>

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---Abe Rooter said:
> Hi. I am a Linux user switching over (attempting to at least) to FreeBSD. It's
> version 3.2. During installation when I get to fdisk, I made 2 partitions. One
> was 6000 megs for the root, and the other 80 megs for the swap. Then I hit the
> 'Q' key, to finish up in fdisk. I couldn't label the disk partitions I had just
> created. How do I label the 6000 meg one '/'  and the 80 meg one swap? I've
> read the how-to's and I still need a bit of guidance. Could you help me out?
> Thanks.
> 
Sure. Go into the Label editor, and on the top, you should see all the slices
that have space (your 6000 meg slice is probably one of them). Press 'C' to
create a new partition in the slice.

Hope that helps! :)

-Joe 







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