Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:39:15 -0500 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! Message-ID: <200503031839.15265.jesse@wingnet.net> In-Reply-To: <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net> References: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org> <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net>
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On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. > >In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: > > > >/boot > >swap > >/ > > > >In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: > > > >/ > >swap > >/usr > >/var > >/tmp > > > >In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same > >partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create > >separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space. > > > >I tried to make /boot it's own partition, and I succeeded, > >to a certain extent. I actually made /boot/boot, because > >the FreeBSD 5.3 boot manager wants to look under the /boot > >directory for "loader". If /boot is it's own partition, then > >you need a /boot/boot/loader. > > > >Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts > >me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. > >I give it: > > > >ufs:ad1s1d > > > >Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. > >Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader > >knows to use ad1s1d as my root device? > > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more > partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) > drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig) and a / partition > (78 gig) and install FreeBSD just fine. Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though? I created the setup you described about a year ago with 5.2.1, and I had serious problems if the system ever hard rebooted after a power failure. Single user manual fsck's and all that. > It's *best* to make more > partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control > logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your > only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or as > complicated as you want it to be. I want / + /boot. It's that simple. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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