Setting up the hard drive for installation.

[night]

This is the way I set up my hard drive for 8.3

ad3s1a    /    1GB
ad3s1b   swap  (double your ram)
ad3s1d   swap  12 GB  (later to become nbsp spool)
ad3s1e   /usr  8 GB
ad3s1f   /home 12GB
ad3s1g   /var  (whatever is left)

How can I set up the same with 9.0 ?

Mark

 

[AlexJ]

Allocating Disk Space

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html

 

[SirDice]

How can I set up the same with 9.0 ?

Exactly the same way. There isn't much different. It's just that the 9.0 installer will, by default, create one partition. But you can easily divide it up, just like on 8.x.

 

[NightTripper]

But for someone who knows beans about freebsd. Those little differences can be a major undertaking.

Mark

 

[wblock@]

It looks like whoever set up those partitions was a Linux user.

 

[NightTripper]

Three replies. And I still don't know how to do it.

Mark

 

[jb_fvwm2]

Do you want to know which partition layout to plan for (sizes?) In which case the forum has many threads of persons posting their disk allocation. Do you remember how you set up the 8.3 disk? Is your question about which disk setup utility to use? Do you have data on the disk that is backed up? That you wish to preserve?
I'd not be able to answer most questions, but others might if you give more details, IOW.
(Also, threads containing bsdinstall, sysinstall might be informative.)

 

[wblock@]

http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210&postcount=13

 

[NightTripper]

As stated in the first post. I showed how I had 8.3 parted out. And I was needing information on how to part out 9.0 the same way.

Mark

 

[NightTripper]

I came up with this.

Partition Type Size Mountpoint Label
freebsd-boot 512K
freebsd-ufs 4G / exrootfs
freebsd-swap 12G exswap
freebsd-swap 32G exswap
freebsd-ufs 4G /var exvarfs
freebsd-ufs 2G /tmp extmpfs
freebsd-ufs accept the default (remainder of the disk) /usr exusrfs

Mark

 

[NightTripper]

It's running but there is a lot of wasted space. When I redo it I'll tighten it up a little.

Mark