Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:18:03 -0800 From: Mark Vasquez <mrvasquez@cox.net> To: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing on two hard drives Message-ID: <419633BB.2080400@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.61.0411130635140.3820@Treneq> References: <Pine.WNT.4.61.0411130635140.3820@Treneq>
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Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 on one of my computers. I > presently have version 5.2.1 installed on another box. > > The one that I want to install on now has two hard drives. I would > like to install everything except "USR" on one drive and "USR" on the > other. That would seem to afford me the most advantageous use of disk > space. It seems that I was always running low on disk space on the > other unit I have in use. Both drives, by the way, are 10 GB in size. I have FreeBSD installed on a system with two disks, where home is mounted to the 2nd disk, while /, /usr/, and /var are mounted to 2 seperate partitions on the 1st disk. > > My question is how to go about this. This will be a fresh install with > no other OS to be taken into consideration. I have checked the Hand > Book, but I was not able to find exactly what I was looking for. Then > again, I am not the most efficient searcher. I did this by installing BSD to the 1st disk, then using sysinstall to format and create a filesystem on the 2nd disk. After that I just modified the /etc/fstab file so that the correct filesystem would be mounted to /home, then used the command "mount /home" and it was done. There are precise instructions for adding a disk to an existing system in "The complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. By the way, it is not recommended to have /usr mounted to a seperate filesystem. I believe that the reason for this is because it can cause problems when upgrading a system. > > Thanks! > > Gerard Seibert > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > "My girlfriend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert'. > > I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of fifteen'." > > -- Emo Philips. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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