I went to install 11.1 yesterday

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 20/08/2017 à 18:23, scratch65535 at att.net a écrit :
> [Default] On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:09:13 +0000, Manish Jain
> <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 08/20/17 19:57, scratch65535 at att.net wrote:
>>> That's quite interesting!  What led me to believe it is that,
>>> after installing windows, which required creating and formatting
>>> an MBR partition, I tried to install 11.1 on the rest of the
>>> disc.  The first choice I was given was whole disc or partition.
>>> I chose partition, of course.  Whereupon it told me that MBR
>>> isn't supported, and that I could either permit it to consume the
>>> whole disc (for GPT, though it didn't actually say that), or back
>>> up and choose differently.  Functionally, the only choices on
>>> offer were whole disc or quit.  I quit.
>>>
>> Are you using UFS or ZFS for the root filesystem ?
> UFS.  Not much point in choosing ZFS without copies=  as a
> precondition.  Or a spare drive for a mirror


No fsck ever, snapshots, clone, send, receive, compression...


-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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