From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 14:51:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C91E37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g26MpRA86073; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:51:27 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:51:27 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux and FreeBSD partitioning question. Message-ID: <20020307115127.A86031@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from craig.williamson@ericsson.co.nz on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:45:22AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:45:22AM +1100, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a new FreeBSD user with 12 months Linux experience. I have a 40 > Gb drive that I want to carve up between Linux and FreeBSD. I'll show you > my idea for partitioning the drive and can you tell me any other suggestions > I could do to partition it properly. > [...] > /boot 100Mb Linux > /boot 100Mb FreeBSD > swap 512Mb Linux > swap 512Mb FreeBSD > / 9Gb Linux > / 9Gb FreeBSD You only need one partition for FreeBSD. Within the FreeBSD partition, you have slices for swap and filesystems. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message