From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 10:46:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA11004 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Oct 1995 10:46:20 -0700 Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA10995 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 1995 10:46:19 -0700 Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7/8.7/+PanixU1.2) id NAA00789; Sat, 7 Oct 1995 13:46:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 13:46:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson To: "freebsd.questions" Subject: fdisk & partition names Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm attempting to install freebsd on a 486DX2-66, with a Quantum Lightning 540meg IDE drive. Currently I have dos on a 80meg partition. In the past I had Debian Linux on the same drive, and the partition names were fairly easy to remember. Now, in bsd's fdisk, I'm at a loss for what to do. Fdisk reports the following: offset size end name PType Desc Subtype flags 0 59 58 - 6 unused 0 59 164197 164255 wd0s1 2 fat 6 = 164256 893024 1057279 - 6 unused 0 > I'm guessing that the dos drive is the second line. And that the remainder of the drive (formerly linux) is the third line. The nameing conventions in linux are fairly easy; hda1 - hda4 are primary partitions, hda5 - logical partitions. I'm only using a single drive, and I have no desire to overwrite the dos partition. My questions are: What is the naming sequence for a single IDE drive? When in fdisk, should I start on the third line? (offset 164256)? If I choose the "entire disk" option, will only the space starting at offset 164256 be affected, and treated as a single partition; dos=80meg, bsd=the rest of the drive? One other question, whats the best partitioning layout for freebsd? In linux, I had the following: dos /dev/hda1 dos 80meg linux /dev/hda2 / 16meg /dev/hda3 swap 16meg /dev/hda4 extended /dev/hda5 /usr 180meg /dev/hda6 /usr/local 120meg /dev/hda7 /var 32meg /dev/hda8 /home 70meg Those numbers worked fine, and the partition names were easy to work with. Also, with the numerous Linux books available, partitioning information is widely available. The freebsd faq's, the work_in_progress Manual, etc, don't really seem to describe a straight forward approach to partitioning. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com