From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 13 13:16:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39B915337 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id NAA32458; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:15:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199910132015.NAA32458@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: donh@halenet.com.au, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disks...? In-Reply-To: <001701bf15b6$543bce60$332137cb@igor> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From: "Don Hansford" >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 06:05:40 +1000 >The result of having your root, swap & usr on seperate slices is that the >swap file Careful, there. Although it's possible to set up a file (within a file system) for swapping, that's not a topic that I would reasonably expect a FreeBSD newbie to be familiar with. [It may be a matter of familiarity, but I find the SunOS approach much easier to administer. Performance may be a different matter, though....] >doesn't get confused (ala Windows), and cause freezes & hangs as >it tries to overwrite system files,etc. That degree of separation does not require separate "slices" -- just separate "partitions". >It is a better system, trust me! :-)) :-} Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message