Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:16:00 +0800 From: Shark Wang <sharkwang@gmail.com> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ? Message-ID: <1e22f359050707181671aed9d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42CDC66E.2040608@dial.pipex.com> References: <40756.193.138.107.178.1120752253.squirrel@193.138.107.178> <1e22f35905070716565c6c653@mail.gmail.com> <42CDC66E.2040608@dial.pipex.com>
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Thanks a lot, I had got the key points ! -Shark On 7/8/05, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Shark Wang wrote: >=20 > >as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to > >separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' . > > > >another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which > >based on partitions layout that my gave? > > > > > > > No, it isn't. ad0s1a would be the first blocks after the MBR. Really, > FreeBSD does not need or expect /boot to be separate so would not have > put it at the front of the disk. The only system I know which does that > is Linux. Out of curiosity, which "legacy Unix"? >=20 > --Alex >=20 >=20 --=20 I'm just a bitMaker !
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