On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > As for 'd' vs 'e', sometime a long time and many generations ago there
> > was a convention of reserving 'd' for something. I don't remember what
> > it was. It was pre
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> I tend to use 'a' if
> the drive will be entirely one slice and one partition used for some
> special work or scratch space, but stick with 'd..h' if there will be
> more than one partition and just leave 'a' alone - for no other
> rea
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:04:27AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 2, Message 2
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen wrote:
>
> > Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE
> > drive with the following entries in /
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 2, Message 2
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700 David Allen wrote:
> Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE
> drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700
David Allen wrote:
> 2. My second question is in regards to using the 'xx' fstype to have
> the system ignore that device.
>
> Consider, for example, a geli encrypted partition. The .eli device
> doesn't exist at boot time. I discovered by accident that the
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 07:23:15PM -0700, David Allen wrote:
> Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE
> drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
> /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs
On 11/15/09, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700, David Allen wrote:
>> 1. The Handbook suggests there is a convention that when partitioning
>> a a drive that's been added, to label the first new partition on that
>> drive as 'e' as opposed to 'a' (which is reserved for the /roo
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:23:15 -0700, David Allen
wrote:
> 1. The Handbook suggests there is a convention that when partitioning a a
> drive that's been added, to label the first new partition on that drive as
> 'e' as opposed to 'a' (which is reserved for the /root partition). Does
> the followin
Say I have performed a standard installation of FreeBSD onto a single IDE
drive with the following entries in /etc/fstab:
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1f /usr u
