Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts

[David Christensen]

On 8/26/21 6:36 AM, Javier wrote:
> Hi,

<snip>


Hello.  :-)


There are as many strategies for partitioning as there are system 
administrators.  I have a SOHO network with three entry-level servers 
running FreeBSD and a mix of macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux clients.  My 
approach:

1.  Motherboard firmware set to BIOS mode.

2.  Small, fast, blank device (e.g. SSD) connected to first motherboard 
SATA port, so that FreeBSD sees it as device 'ada'.  (The FreeBSD 
installer will use all available space, so I used "16 GB" SSD's until I 
hacked the FreeBSD installer shell script per my desired partition sizes.)

3.  FreeBSD installer on USB flash drive.


Here are my partitioning notes from when I set up a server with 
FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64:

Partitioning                    Auto (ZFS)
Pool Type/Disks                 stripe: 1 disk
                                 ada0 INTEL SSDSC2CW060A3
Pool Name                       f1_zroot
Force 4K Sectors                YES
Encrypt Disks                   YES
Partition Scheme                MBR (BIOS)
Swap Size                       2g
Mirror Swap                     YES
Encrypt Swap                    YES
 >>> Install                     Proceed with installation


David