From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 18:16:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6082716A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144A843D46 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe.laws@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m69so85789rne for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.89.38 with SMTP id m38mr284711rnb; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5ac5e3b004072611166f3bf090@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:16:55 -0700 From: Joe Laws To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Does FreeBSD need to be on a Primary Partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:16:56 -0000 Since I have about 10 partitions (3primary, 7 extended), I was wondering if BSD needs a root partition on one of the primary partitions. I have heard this is the case in some of the BSD's. -Joe