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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:23:53 +0200
From:      Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Minimum size of freebsd-boot
Message-ID:  <89f55b95-5bf9-5f39-7907-ae716753d019@fechner.net>
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Am 21.06.2018 um 18:15 schrieb Manish Jain:
> Under GPT, FreeBSD needs a freebsd-boot partition of max size 512 KB.
> Is there a minimum size too ? 

I use:

gpart add -a 4k -s 128M -t efi ada0
gpart add -a 4k -s 256K -t freebsd-boot -l boot0 ada0
gpart add -a 4k -t freebsd-zfs -l zroot0 ada0

This will create a 128MB partition to use EFI if wanted.
Create a 256KB boot partition which is more than enough.
Use the rest for a ZFS setup.

Gruß
Matthias

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