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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 07:56:17 +0800
From: Shark Wang <sharkwang@gmail.com>
To: John McAree <john@mcaree.org>
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Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the
	same slice ?
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as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to=20
separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' .

another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which=20
based on partitions layout that my gave?

thanks!

-Shark


On 7/8/05, John McAree <john@mcaree.org> wrote:
> > the following is my partitions layout, pls help to do some check:
> >
> > ad0s1d      /boot  -> 30M
> > ad0s1a      /  -> 512M
> > ad0s1b      swap -> 512M
> > ad0s1e      /usr -> 6144M
> > ad0s1f       /var -> 512M
> > ad0s1g      /home -> 2017M
> > ad0s1h      /tmp  -> 512M
>=20
> I believe /boot needs to be on the first 1024 blocks of the disk. Why do
> you want a separate partition for /boot?
>=20
> John.
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20


--=20
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