FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Jason Hsu
How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the main FreeBSD partition. I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Zhihao Yuan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: How does partitioning work in FreeBSD?  GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown.  Then there are the sub-partitions within the

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:24:35PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the main FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 23.03.2011 00:24, Jason Hsu wrote: I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than it was to learn Linux. However, I'm sure it will be worth it, as BSD is legendary for stability and is the basis for Mac OS and other proprietary systems. The FreeBSD documentation is not less

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Chris H
On Tue, March 22, 2011 2:24 pm, Jason Hsu wrote: How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the main FreeBSD partition.

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:24 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: How does partitioning work in FreeBSD? GParted recognizes FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels the FreeBSD partition as unknown. Then there are the sub-partitions within the main FreeBSD partition.

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com wrote: n FreeBSD, the term `slice' refers to a record in MBR or GPT table, aka., a partition in x86 world. In a slice, we can use either bsdlabel to create UFS partitions, or install a ZFS pool. A GPT partition is not a slice in