From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 22:12:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23772106566B for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:12:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09AB8FC16 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so7218547bwz.13 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:12:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references :content-type:organization:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eAc5kn/7VcOgW0Z9CZRqzwBhoLQ0JIfVQcc7xa1EgEQ=; b=FRpCL8WSg61OsnsNAZd5efujhOVa45pR6BgAH9QPCzc1H5r1KllTxnaq/mHcCHRLvw YWP1KB9qnNfoQdZPO7z7UALu8rk0kyyOtGdYz8XIo8gAZfZqxL9oK8DT93r3Bgb6swkF VW2yYS9u8rLG7ePC9OrpqWJK9VLkULI5mbt0s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ksaq7nsWEpSYiFZ/eyVoMrP5iNsQW4QRlafS63SIIf7VauZnGrv6pqqAg2jqOGXTR3 m3x5o9aHivMMXw3SmiByOKGJ6MiMQKmdBoYHOLJoLPOFUUvrsfxgvn7RIQnXpPJKTIWA f6zxPr1Umm4w1NU2tKdfY3NxuYq07QHAA1kXI= Received: by 10.204.73.139 with SMTP id q11mr5494827bkj.18.1300830509349; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (254.166.broadband10.iol.cz [90.177.166.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k5sm99347bku.16.2011.03.22.14.48.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:48:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: Jason Hsu In-Reply-To: <20110322162435.51028324.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> References: <20110322162435.51028324.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:48:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1300830505.1471.107.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:12:47 -0000 On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:24 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, > FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels > the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions > within the main FreeBSD partition. > > I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than it was to learn > Linux. However, I'm sure it will be worth it, as BSD is legendary for > stability and is the basis for Mac OS and other proprietary systems. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-steps.html Note that you don't actually need sysinstall to work with FreeBSD partitions at all (but you need a working FreeBSD for that, obviously). The handbook page will give you a very good step-by-step overview on how freebsd *partitions* and *slices* work and what they generally stand for. In fact, shortly after you get a grip on the basics, you will start hating sysinstall completely (this is guaranteed) and never ever use it again (continue with "man fdisk", "man bsdlabel" after that). But first, read the mentioned handbook section carefuly - from that on, you should find partitioning in FreeBSD very easy and intuitive. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)