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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:51:23 -0800
From:      bsd <bsd@stuckat99.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installer zfs datasets
Message-ID:  <1487818283.3996762.890012840.0D53FC3C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Hi,

Here are some ideas - https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1982 

I believe the gnop commands are not needed as of FreeBSD 11 so double
check before copy/pasting this. 

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017, at 12:19 PM, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the 10.3 installer, doing auto zfs install creates a bunch of 
> datasets on rootfs, however, if I select to do my own partitioning (and 
> proceed to do that in the shell) and then select to have zfsroot on the 
> partition allocated for root, it only creates a single dataset for root. 
> Can I somehow mimic the auto mode of the installer and still do my own 
> partitioning?
> 
> I basically only want an additional EFI partition and control the sector 
> alignment of the other partitions. I can probably look at source code of 
> the installer and do what it does manually, but if there's a better way..
> 
> -- Heikki Lindholm
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