FreeBSD partitioning

[Michal Varga]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:24 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote:
> How does partitioning work in FreeBSD?  GParted recognizes FAT16,
> FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, swap, and many other formats but labels
> the FreeBSD partition as unknown.  Then there are the sub-partitions
> within the main FreeBSD partition.
> 
> I'm finding it much more difficult to learn BSD than it was to learn
> Linux.  However, I'm sure it will be worth it, as BSD is legendary for
> stability and is the basis for Mac OS and other proprietary systems.
> 

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-steps.html

Note that you don't actually need sysinstall to work with FreeBSD
partitions at all (but you need a working FreeBSD for that, obviously). 

The handbook page will give you a very good step-by-step overview on how
freebsd *partitions* and *slices* work and what they generally stand
for. In fact, shortly after you get a grip on the basics, you will start
hating sysinstall completely (this is guaranteed) and never ever use it
again (continue with "man fdisk", "man bsdlabel" after that).

But first, read the mentioned handbook section carefuly - from that on,
you should find partitioning in FreeBSD very easy and intuitive.

m.


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Michal Varga,
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