Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 22:40:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> To: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fdisk & partition names Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951008221634.15144A-100000@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <199510090201.LAA08002@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Thanks for writing. I tested out the partitioning on an old 386, figured out the offset thing, and where to start the new partition. It worked out, so I started on the 486. I'll have to re-read the 'sliceing' FAQ section. I tried to add 6 partitions for bsd at first. After wd0s4e, the next three partitions were simply labled 'X'. I stopped there and loaded it as three partitions, not sure if bsd supported extended partitions. As per your suggestion of putting /usr/local on a separate partition, /usr/local is empty, but /usr/share is very big. I thought 'share' might be a better choice. Your letter helps greatly, thank you. While I've got you here, is there a 'install' procedure for installing the other programs; 'kermit.tgz', 'bash-1.14.tgz', 'top-3.3.tgz', etc. I posted this question to the Mail-list a few hours ago, but the letter shown up yet. Thanks again, Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com On Mon, 9 Oct 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > > Based on your requirements above, I'd suggest : > > /dev/wd0s2a / 30M > /dev/wd0s2b swap 32M (16M of swap is not really enough) > /dev/wd0s2e /usr 100M (more if you want to put /usr/src in here) > > And so forth. I'd be tempted to put /var, /usr/local and /home on a single > partition (say /local0) and symlink to it. This will save you lots of grief > that you'd have otherwise if you outgrew a partition. > > Hope that's helpful. >
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