On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:09, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: > > 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. > > Doesn't the boot partition have to NOT have soft updates though? > I created the setup you described about a year ago with 5.2.1, and > I had serious problems if the system ever hard rebooted after a > power failure. Single user manual fsck's and all that. If that is true, then why not create /, /usr & /swap & symlink /var to somewhere on /usr (or vice versa). > > > 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. > > I want / + /boot. It's that simple.
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