From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 16 16:46:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA19940 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA19935 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA10108; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:46:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:46:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: partitions vs filesystems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A friend of mine just installed Redhat Linux to play with it. He told me that you need to create separate partitions/file system for it. I know in FreeBSD I just create one partiton per drive and make my filesystems there. Does anyone know of any advantages/disadvantages to creating a partition per file system vs one partition and multiple file systems? ====================================================================== Jeremy Sigmon B.S. ChE | Web Developer of the Robert C. Byrd Health | Use Sciences Center of West Virginia University | FreeBSD WWW.HSC.WVU.EDU | Now Graduate Student in Computer Science | Office : 293-1060 |