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Date:      Sun, 08 Aug 1999 22:13:43 -0700
From:      charon@freethought.org
To:        Abe@Nerdy.Org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD help
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990808221343.00a58ce0@mail>
In-Reply-To: <199908090340.UAA14274@home.humboldt1.com>
References:  <000701bee213$20e3ab40$668767cf@jaspa>

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---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.

Why do you need a  a 6000 meg '/' partition?  Mine's 38 MB and that's
totally sufficient... I would put all extra diskspace into "/usr" if I were
you.  That's where the programs, the source, home directories, and just
about everything else resides.


-Charon


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