From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat May 20 5:59:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFB8B37B5D9 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 05:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jswarner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 14729 invoked by alias); 20 May 2000 12:59:40 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 14707 invoked by uid 0); 20 May 2000 12:59:39 -0000 Received: from aedialup82.slkc.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.106.82) by slkcpop1.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 20 May 2000 12:59:39 -0000 Message-ID: <39268B6B.644E738B@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 06:56:12 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitions References: <000501bfc1bb$0621d970$b2e47ad1@leegold1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If FreeBSD is going to be the only OS on your drive, why don't you just tell it to use the entire disk? If you do this, it will take care of all the partitioning/formatting tasks for you. Joe leegold wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message