Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:38:53 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, slava revutchi <sl@zeus.dnt.md> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on one slice Message-ID: <19991122173853.04400@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991122105147.3293C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from Zhihui Zhang on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 10:54:54AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911221821180.33114-100000@zeus.dnt.md> <Pine.GSO.3.96.991122105147.3293C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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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
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