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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.pbi.net!nntp0.deepwell.com!not-for-mail From: goten@sduteam.com (Derek Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More partitions than default devices? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 07:44:13 GMT Organization: DeepWell Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3365a66c.31583453@news.deepwell.com> References: <5jap4r$32@news.ox.ac.uk> <335C09FE.10@OntheNet.com.au> <5ji7mi$dbj@news.ox.ac.uk> <335f1529.2917713@news.csus.edu> <5jngel$kc4$1@cantina.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: dis184.deepwell.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39989 On 24 Apr 1997 14:33:41 +0300, mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) wrote: >stonebrother <stonebrother@sduteam.com> wrote: >>Can someone explain it to me, why we want to partition to a, b, c, d, >>e, f, g, h, if we have four partition. >>Whats the pros for slicing it into so many pieces =) > >let's say i have the following partitions: (well, i do, almost) > >beasty-boys% df -k >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/sd0a 34895 14100 18004 44% / >/dev/sd0s1e 381487 330946 20023 94% /usr >/dev/sd0s1f 254319 133193 100781 57% /home >/dev/sd0s1g 190735 5459 170018 3% /var >/dev/sd0s1h 77935 3041 68660 4% /var/mail >/dev/sd0s2e 127151 1230 115749 1% /tmp >/dev/sd0s2f 59471 15777 38937 29% /www >/dev/sd0s2g 471665 320288 80820 39% /ftp1 >/dev/sd0s2h 410302 410302 0 110% /customers >procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >/dev/wcd0c 626984 626984 0 100% /cdrom >beasty-boys% > I just wonder I can I change my default path for www to the custom path /www for my customers? And how do I change default mail location for user to a custom directory? And so as ftp dir. thanks for reply. rgd, Dominic