Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:39:58 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Roger <rnodal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system. Message-ID: <20091114083958.74482be3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <9d972bed0911131228k36f9515ak361d82d766c24749@mail.gmail.com> References: <9d972bed0911131228k36f9515ak361d82d766c24749@mail.gmail.com>
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A little sidenote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger <rnodal@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big > slice that covers the > entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have > /usr/local > in a separate slice. In most cases, you set up one slice covering the whole disk, and then partition it, giving functional parts an own partition, such as /, /var, /tmp, /usr (including or intendedly excluding /usr/local) and /home. Those are partitions, not slices. As far as I know, there's no advantage in adding additional slices to that concept. A slice is a "DOS primary partition", while a partition is just a subdivision (i. e. an own file system) inside a slice. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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