From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 21:56:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA02910 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 21:56:00 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA02904 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 21:55:56 -0800 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <198>; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 15:05:51 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 15:04:30 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: dale@northcoast.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap partition name In-Reply-To: <199503021900.LAA06127@redwood.northcoast.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Mar 1995 dale@northcoast.com wrote: > The fdisk help files tell me to be sure to assign a swap file > partition, but I don't know what to call it so it'll be recognized as > such.?. The assign command insists that the name start with "/"; I > tried "/swap", "/swp", & "/tmp". I'm installing the boot stuff from > 1.2MB floppy so the tutorial FAQ isn't included. FreeBSD handles partitions a little differently than Linux. You generally only have one FreeBSD partition per disk. Within that disk you can have one or more "slices". The second slice (b), will be the swap slice. Tom