Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

From: Alex Zbyslaw (xfb52_at_dial.pipex.com)
Date: 07/08/05

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    Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:18:54 +0100
    To: Shark Wang <sharkwang@gmail.com>
    
    

    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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