From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 23:39:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A1916A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chortos.wingnet.net (chortos.wingnet.net [216.64.101.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DDF43D39 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:39:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jesse@wingnet.net) Received: (qmail 2853 invoked by uid 210); 3 Mar 2005 18:39:20 -0500 Received: from 216.64.98.250 by chortos (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.24st (clamdscan: 0.81/743. perlscan: 1.24st. Clear:RC:1(216.64.98.250):. Processed in 0.055687 secs); 03 Mar 2005 23:39:20 -0000 Received: from office.wingnet.net (HELO shannon.int.wingnet.net) (jesse@216.64.98.250) by chortos.wingnet.net with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 3 Mar 2005 18:39:20 -0500 From: Jesse Guardiani Organization: WingNET To: Laurence Sanford Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:39:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503031839.15265.jesse@wingnet.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:39:23 -0000 On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. > >In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: > > > >/boot > >swap > >/ > > > >In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: > > > >/ > >swap > >/usr > >/var > >/tmp > > > >In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same > >partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create > >separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space. > > > >I tried to make /boot it's own partition, and I succeeded, > >to a certain extent. I actually made /boot/boot, because > >the FreeBSD 5.3 boot manager wants to look under the /boot > >directory for "loader". If /boot is it's own partition, then > >you need a /boot/boot/loader. > > > >Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts > >me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. > >I give it: > > > >ufs:ad1s1d > > > >Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. > >Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader > >knows to use ad1s1d as my root device? > > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more > partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) > drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig) and a / partition > (78 gig) and install FreeBSD just fine. Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though? I created the setup you described about a year ago with 5.2.1, and I had serious problems if the system ever hard rebooted after a power failure. Single user manual fsck's and all that. > It's *best* to make more > partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control > logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your > only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or as > complicated as you want it to be. I want / + /boot. It's that simple. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net