[CLUE-Tech] FreeBSD [was Re: Nessus]

[Evan Widger]

David Anselmi wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> I especially didn't like the slices approach to hard drive partitioning
>> and the fact that only primary partitions are supported.  I had to do a
>> lot of juggling to make linux and FreeBSD coexist on my harddrive.
> 
> 
> Looks to me like FreeBSD supports more than primary partitions.  If you 
> read far enough in section 2.5.2 of the install guide[1] it says "There 
> can only be four physical slices on a disk, but you can have logical 
> slices inside physical slices of the appropriate type."
> 
> In FreeBSD, slice means what partition does in Linux.  They work the 
> same -- making an extended slice allows you to put logical slices in it.
> 
> Slices can contain several partitions, so there is an extra layer of 
> division compared to Linux.  A partition contains one filesystem in 
> either OS.
> 
> Seems that if you get the terminology straight getting FreeBSD, Linux, 
> and Win* to coexist should be easy.
> 


i didn't catch that bit before, my freebsd installation happily resides 
on an extended partition on my 40GB drive. the terminology is indeed a 
bit different, but the handbook goes over it quite well in the pages on 
installing and partitioning/slicing. win2k and freebsd are fine with 
eachother, if i had more free space i'd throw a linux install on here 
but would have to get out the partition magic again to move stuff 
around. and i'm too lazy to do that.

-Evan