From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 19 10:51:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72A437BE09 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-228-178.s432.tnt2.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.228.178] helo=leegold1) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12sqw1-0007DO-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:51:42 -0400 Message-ID: <000501bfc1bb$0621d970$b2e47ad1@leegold1> From: "leegold" To: Subject: partitions Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:52:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trying to get an understanding of how i should partition the hard disk before I attemp my first install of FreeBSD 4.0. I will install only FeeBSD on a 6gb hd. I will remove all existing partitions on the disk - it will be totally "cleaned-out". I assume freebsd will setup its own native file system (vs. fat16) durring the installtion. (good) But what about the partition ( SLICES) scheme? - - # of partions needed, - size of each partition what do i do? traditionally i read a: is the system's root files, b: is the swap area, c: refers to the whole disk. to complicate i read a recomendation: to "create" 5 partitions for /, swap, /var, /temp, /usr - what's this about? I a newbie so while you're at it: what's the /var, /temp dirs for? what's the rational behind this scheme- what do you recommend? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message