Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:41:46 -0600 From: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! Message-ID: <422792AA.1080301@wilderness.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org>
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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. 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.
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