Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:18:54 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Shark Wang <sharkwang@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ? Message-ID: <42CDC66E.2040608@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <1e22f35905070716565c6c653@mail.gmail.com> References: <40756.193.138.107.178.1120752253.squirrel@193.138.107.178> <1e22f35905070716565c6c653@mail.gmail.com>
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Shark Wang wrote: >as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to >separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' . > >another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which >based on partitions layout that my gave? > > > No, it isn't. ad0s1a would be the first blocks after the MBR. Really, FreeBSD does not need or expect /boot to be separate so would not have put it at the front of the disk. The only system I know which does that is Linux. Out of curiosity, which "legacy Unix"? --Alex
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