From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 13 13: 6:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8C814C3A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor (modem-51-warw.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.51]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA27763 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:08:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <001701bf15b6$543bce60$332137cb@igor> From: "Don Hansford" To: References: <3.0.3.32.19991013111434.0071b580@slider> Subject: Re: Disks...? Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:05:40 +1000 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The result of having your root, swap & usr on seperate slices is that the swap file doesn't get confused (ala Windows), and cause freezes & hangs as it tries to overwrite system files,etc. It is a better system, trust me! :-)) Regards Igor **************************************************** * "I use UNIX because reboots are for hardware upgrades" * **************************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Rothenberg To: Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:14 AM 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. > > Or do these slices become transparent to all? Or is it required that I have > a different slice for each..?? > > I didnt bring the book to work or I would list page nums };) > > Thanks! > > -michael > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message