From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 16:25:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C37B37B442 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6DFA981490; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:55:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 08:55:06 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: budsz Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About partition FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020615232506.GC65995@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1413.202.143.103.230.1024127882.squirrel@www.kumprang.or.id> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1413.202.143.103.230.1024127882.squirrel@www.kumprang.or.id> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 15 June 2002 at 14:58:02 +0700, budsz wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I was setup FreeBSD in my friend's machine. so he want make > partition like: > / > /usr > /var > /mp3 > /data > /source > /www > /ftp > /mail > > so in cfdisk if i create more that 7 partition, display like /x bla..bla > I checked di /dev for > > $ls /dev/dev/ad0s1[a-z] > /dev/ad0s1a /dev/ad0s1c /dev/ad0s1e /dev/ad0s1g > /dev/ad0s1b /dev/ad0s1d /dev/ad0s1f /dev/ad0s1h > > I counted partitions in FreeBSD only can mount until "h", how if I want > create partition more than 12 partition maybe (like openbsd's cfdisk)...?, > this is happened the first booting with CD. Well, I'd be really interested to know why you think you need so many partitions. It's just an invitation to run out of space in one partition and have plenty in another, and to create a rats nest of directory symlinks. If you really want to do it, though, you have two choices: 1. Use Vinum and create as many file systems as you want. 2. Create additional slices and put the file systems on them. Note that you can't use the c partition for file systems, and it's good practice to use the b partition only for swap space. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message