From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 16:18:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3C416A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:18:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from err.spacecataz.org (wsip-68-15-27-59.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.27.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C3A43D1F for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:18:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrvasquez@cox.net) Received: from [192.168.100.3] (ip68-6-210-106.sd.sd.cox.net [68.6.210.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by err.spacecataz.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iADGI3fH013793 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:18:03 -0800 Message-ID: <419633BB.2080400@cox.net> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:18:03 -0800 From: Mark Vasquez User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Seibert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Installing on two hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:18:05 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 on one of my computers. I > presently have version 5.2.1 installed on another box. > > The one that I want to install on now has two hard drives. I would > like to install everything except "USR" on one drive and "USR" on the > other. That would seem to afford me the most advantageous use of disk > space. It seems that I was always running low on disk space on the > other unit I have in use. Both drives, by the way, are 10 GB in size. I have FreeBSD installed on a system with two disks, where home is mounted to the 2nd disk, while /, /usr/, and /var are mounted to 2 seperate partitions on the 1st disk. > > My question is how to go about this. This will be a fresh install with > no other OS to be taken into consideration. I have checked the Hand > Book, but I was not able to find exactly what I was looking for. Then > again, I am not the most efficient searcher. I did this by installing BSD to the 1st disk, then using sysinstall to format and create a filesystem on the 2nd disk. After that I just modified the /etc/fstab file so that the correct filesystem would be mounted to /home, then used the command "mount /home" and it was done. There are precise instructions for adding a disk to an existing system in "The complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. By the way, it is not recommended to have /usr mounted to a seperate filesystem. I believe that the reason for this is because it can cause problems when upgrading a system. > > Thanks! > > Gerard Seibert > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > "My girlfriend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert'. > > I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of fifteen'." > > -- Emo Philips. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >