From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 19:47:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D1AE37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 19:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9097443E3B for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 19:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:43:22 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id A81F9BA05; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Grant Cooper" Subject: Re: repartitioning single harddrive Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:43:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: References: <006401c224f7$392bf7a0$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> <007401c224fa$05631a40$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <007401c224fa$05631a40$040a0a0a@ab.hsia.telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020707024302.A81F9BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 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" | Cc: | 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? | > | > | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message