Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

Polytropon wrote:
A little sidenote:

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:28:04 -0500, Roger <rnodal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The reason for wanting to re-install is because I only have on big
slice that covers the
entire harddrive and I don't want that. Primarily I would like to have
/usr/local
in a separate slice.


In most cases, you set up one slice covering the whole disk,
and then partition it, giving functional parts an own
partition, such as /, /var, /tmp, /usr (including or intendedly
excluding /usr/local) and /home. Those are partitions, not
slices.

As far as I know, there's no advantage in adding additional slices
to that concept.

A slice is a "DOS primary partition", while a partition is
just a subdivision (i. e. an own file system) inside a slice.




It seems however that some dedicated servers are setup using a single
slice and a single partition, i.e. having /usr /var and /tmp as
subdirectories in / instead of separate filesystems. I was once
administering a server setup in this way - the hosting company would
only perform this kind of install (they probably had a ready image or
dump and would not change it).
If the OP cares to share his /etc/fstab, it will become obvious if this
is the case.
If there are already separate partitions inside the slice, I'd agree
there is no compelling reason to move to a multiple slice system.
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