From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 14:40:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5D214CC8 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:40:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991122173853.04400@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:38:53 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Zhihui Zhang , slava revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on one slice Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Zhihui Zhang on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 10:54:54AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 22 November 1999 at 10:54:54 -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, slava revutchi wrote: > >> Is there a way to set up FreeBSD on one slice so that >> I won't have separate slices for /, /usr and /var? >> I need this for an workstation. > > Within one FreeBSD slice, you can have eight partitions. Each of > these partitions can be a filesystem, like /, /usr, and /var or a > swap area. > > Each machine can have four slices (called DOS partitions). In other > slices, you can have Windows, Linux, etc. If, on the other hand, you mean "Is there a way to set up FreeBSD on one partition?", the answer is probably no. You can get by with only one partition (and I often do), but you also need swap space. Theoretically you could swap to a file (with some juggling), but performance is terrible and I can't see any reason to want to do so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message