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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:19:02 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot like linux!
Message-ID:  <534555829.20050304061902@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <d0853q$kkq$1@sea.gmane.org>

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Jesse Guardiani writes:

> 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

You don't _have_ to create these partitions.  They are just the
suggested configuration (and the default if you have the system create
partitions for you).  All you really need is a swap partition and a root
partition (/).

-- 
Anthony




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