At 8:09 AM -0600 2/8/10, Peter Steele wrote:
I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the first partition or can it follow swap space?
In the world of MBR partitioning, there is some situation where it's important that the root partition be 'a'. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was. Probably something having to do with the boot loader. I do remember running into it once when I had the root partition as 'd' by mistake. But that was several years ago, so I don't remember the details. In any case, I would not expect the same problems to come up once you're using gpart partitioning. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
