From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 13 9: 7:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C00F14CBB for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from u98jobj@stud.hh.se) Received: from gs177 (klart@gs177.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA20977; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:05:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <000501bf1595$49bb8640$b1102fc2@gsten.hh.se> From: =?iso-8859-1?B?Sm9lbCBCavZyaw==?= To: , "Michael Rothenberg" References: <3.0.3.32.19991013111434.0071b580@slider> Subject: SV: Disks...? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:09:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Read the installation chapter. It tells you how to link the /var and /tmp dir. All slice are mounted on the / dir except for the swap slice so the only = problem you can have if you follow the directions in Complete FreeBSD is = that your root directory fills up but that won't normally happen. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael Rothenberg To: Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 5:14 PM Subject: Disks...? > I was reading in the complete free bsd about how fbsd organises a = disk. I > got confused. All I want is a dedicated fbsd pc with one physical = drive. On > that drive it seems that it will be divided up into 4 slices(which = come > after the MBR and partition table)? Cant I just have 1 slice be the = whole > drive? So my root, swap, and /usr will be on the same big slice. >=20 > Or do these slices become transparent to all? Or is it required that I = have > a different slice for each..?? >=20 > I didnt bring the book to work or I would list page nums };) >=20 > Thanks! >=20 > -michael >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message