From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 12 13:27:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32896C3F for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 13:27:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roland@micite.net) Received: from smtp08.online.nl (smtp08.online.nl [194.134.42.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B2CB53 for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 13:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp08.online.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp08.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8ADC6600B for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from micite.net (s529d340f.adsl.online.nl [82.157.52.15]) by smtp08.online.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 92108 invoked by uid 98); 12 May 2013 13:09:54 -0000 Received: from 82.157.52.15 (roland@82.157.52.15) by lutetium.micite.net (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (spamassassin: 3.3.2. Clear:RC:0(82.157.52.15):SA:1(6.3/5.0):. Processed in 6.930613 secs); 12 May 2013 13:09:54 -0000 X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.3 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: ++++++ Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.68?) (roland@82.157.52.15) by 192.168.1.64 with CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 May 2013 13:09:47 -0000 Message-ID: <518F975E.9080105@micite.net> Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:34 +0200 From: Roland van Laar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZFS partitioning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Online-Scanned: by Cloudmark authority (on smtp08.online.nl) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:27:49 -0000 Hello, I'm following the raidz[1] and mirror[2] guides for a ZFS root. For a test installation on a 5 disk Virtualbox environment. I see that all the disks get the same partitions, including swap and boot? Why is that? And do I need those 5 boot and swap partitions? Thank you for your time, Rolad [1]https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ1 [2]https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE