proper newfs options for SSD disk

rank1seeker at gmail.com rank1seeker at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 19:25:38 UTC 2012


> > And PLEASE DO NOT make this stupid MSDOS style slices. It is not just 
> > unneeded but introduces mess and only mess.
> > 
> > just have /dev/ad0a not /dev/ad0s1a


What FreeBSD devs have to say about this?
;)


> OK, but I wanted to have most of the space of the 4 GB SSD encrypted
> with geli(8); so I should make there some slice containing /boot
> (unencrypted) and a second slice which later will contain my HOME and
> encrypted; wrong?
> 
> 	matthias
> --

You can encrypt ANY provider.
Put HOME on i.e; 'h' bsd label and encrypt it via geli.

Or encrypt whole SSD and have /boot on USB stick or optical media, or ...


Domagoj Smolčić


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