Subject: Re: partition sizes?
To: None <langer@cichlids.com>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/21/1998 15:07:09
Hi,
> (Cause nobody needs a 18 GB HDD seperated into 4 partitions. I'd need
> for example 5 GB for /usr, 1 GB for /var, 500 MB for /home 1 GB for /opt
> and others; one for Windows (games), and some for other OS's for testing
> purposes)
This is something special to Linux and doesn't apply to *BSD (afaik none of
'em). Linux uses MBR partitions only to split the disk in parts. *BSD uses
the BSD disklabel exclusively for that and only uses one entry in the MBR
to find that BSD disklabel.
Ciao,
Wolfgang
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