filesystem type in new installer

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Michael wrote:

> What are the valid filesystem types in Partition Editor?
> Installer gives two examples: freebsd-ufs and freebsd-swap. I guess that I 
> can use freebsd-zfs but what are the others? And is that list accessible from 
> the installer itself (some kind of help system) or should I look in external 
> documentation?
>
> It's in the news that it supports geli, zfs and others but I don't see any of 
> these options in the installer. Where should I look?

Short-term, the gpart(8) man page:
   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gpart&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html
   Scroll down to Partition Types.

Long-term... don't know.  FWIW, I agree that the program should be 
self-documenting.  That might be difficult with all the partition 
schemes.