From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 20:54:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matjes.koerber.org (matjes.koerber.org [203.127.219.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB7037B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from dean (dean.koerber.org [203.127.219.244]) by matjes.koerber.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAC4spu16214 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:54:52 +0800 Message-ID: <00fd01c04c64$b127f3c0$f4db7fcb@dean.koerber.org> Reply-To: "Mathias Koerber" From: "Mathias Koerber" To: Subject: More partitions on a single slice? Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:54:50 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am familiar with Linux, and just trying to install FreeBSD on my new notebook. The FreeBSD Manual on one hand explains that it is better having separate filesystems for /var, /tmp etc. But on the other hand there seems to be severe restriction on partitions available in the one FreeBSD slice on my harddisk. (The manual also claims that disklabel prefers the 'e' partition for non-root filesystems. There seems to be a basic assumption here that everything non-root goes into a single partition, or that additional physical disks (or slices) are available). I want to create: / (ro) /usr (ro) /var /home /tmp /usr/local swap /u0 and potentially more. However, disk partitions only seem to go up to ad0s1h. When I use the disklabel editor, it lets me devine additional partitions, but names the devive /dev/dsk/X? Later mount complains that that does not exist. And no, I do not want to scarifice another slice (BIOS partition) as I need that for Linux. Any help on this is appreciated. Mathias Koerber mathias@koerber.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message