From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 8 20:42:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.humboldt1.com (home.humboldt1.com [206.13.45.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602FD14EA4 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ognir@humboldt1.com) Received: from shovel.groff (ppp189-pm6.humboldt1.com [207.104.21.182]) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with SMTP id UAA14274; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908090340.UAA14274@home.humboldt1.com> From: Joe Groff To: Abe@Nerdy.Org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: ognir@humboldt1.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD help In-Reply-To: <000701bee213$20e3ab40$668767cf@jaspa> X-Mailer: XCmail 1.0.0 - with PGP support, PGP engine version 0.5 (FreeBSD) X-Mailerorigin: http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/~schmitzj/Xclasses/XCmail/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---Abe Rooter said: > Hi. I am a Linux user switching over (attempting to at least) to FreeBSD. It's > version 3.2. During installation when I get to fdisk, I made 2 partitions. One > was 6000 megs for the root, and the other 80 megs for the swap. Then I hit the > 'Q' key, to finish up in fdisk. I couldn't label the disk partitions I had just > created. How do I label the 6000 meg one '/' and the 80 meg one swap? I've > read the how-to's and I still need a bit of guidance. Could you help me out? > Thanks. > Sure. Go into the Label editor, and on the top, you should see all the slices that have space (your 6000 meg slice is probably one of them). Press 'C' to create a new partition in the slice. Hope that helps! :) -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message