Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 22:13:43 -0700 From: charon@freethought.org To: Abe@Nerdy.Org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD help Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990808221343.00a58ce0@mail> In-Reply-To: <199908090340.UAA14274@home.humboldt1.com> References: <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. Why do you need a a 6000 meg '/' partition? Mine's 38 MB and that's totally sufficient... I would put all extra diskspace into "/usr" if I were you. That's where the programs, the source, home directories, and just about everything else resides. -Charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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