Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:43:02 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: repartitioning single harddrive Message-ID: <20020707024302.A81F9BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <007401c224fa$05631a40$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0207071144160.66386-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> <006401c224f7$392bf7a0$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> <007401c224fa$05631a40$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net>
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On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:32 am, Grant Cooper wrote:
| Ok, I just realized something. I'm lost. After all this administrative
| stuff I been enlightened of the new file structure. I really don't want to
| loose all my old data. I used fdisk partition editor during my initial
| installation and used my entire disk for FreeBSD. Then on Disklabel I have
| 5 partitions I think. Drives a - g. In dos I would just go a: & d: for
| example. In freeBSD I have to mount to get to these drives? Also, my home
| directory - where is that data stored? What drive? Under Mount only dive
| that looks active is my SWAP drive
How did you do the install?
If you do a vaguely normal install it should all be automatically mounted for
you upon the reboot from the install. I mean, yes, you *do* have to mount a
drive for it to be availble, but this should have happened automatically for
you.
So, for example, if you told it to use parition b (/dev/ad0s2b) for the usr
files, then you should find those files in
/usr
because they have already been mounted.
Unlike in MS-DOS, you don't have to do all that goofy a: d: stuff; in fact,
unless there's a problem you don't really need to know what's a mountpoint
and what's just a directory; this is all transparent.
Much more elegant, no?
It is very different, however; I would strongly suggest reading an
introduction to Unix and its philosophy before proceeding much further into
the nitty-gritty.
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com>
| Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
| Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 8:12 AM
| Subject: repartitioning single harddrive
|
| > I am trying to re-partition my single hard drive. Can someone point me to
| > the direction of what tools I have to use. I'm not sure if I have to
| > /stand/sysinstall and do it from there?
| >
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