From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 26 15:06:53 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AD866B900 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:06:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [184.105.128.27]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "holgerdanske.com", Issuer "holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GwR5S0ZR4z3JJm for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:06:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=holgerdanske.com; s=nov-20210719-112354; t=1629990400; bh=JyKrNjC1/u+k/PDQuhPG9PtmaWrzjRglMfbQGqxzgyI=; h=Received:Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:User-Agent: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Language: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=YZgXadT7bwBDmfcuHNkjkUGr+D5DTOldIz2ybbeWjBS2wWUMZ4sL8ckio3BrjUz9b C//fWdLIa0uVHaKRQdodIohIxwecWV+DCwWxQ+1bsCYzMNR82OJE9j8ZYRMpM9ji7i NJzK4LzB3KvJit6rHnRA2sNptkC/Nz+rPn18+1y23bCuZ8RizYZuJA+7RmjYJ/DrFl Vj7/O91uEIr94g9ivgLnM4tWUJgcSrhbYiPfEV6smqygbSnakwUyAoqsfuFKGG7N6u BYxEnU7DKQ25NAY2mh0I8ogNDeRiTN8kUy4EAFRc/WSfW+dybDlyYe6BL+8Kg4iq6M vGIX+YxhpT8odlQxL6RGv9DVE6epz5CPt5xKtdgjs6lmFcxx2aKCC71J9b/9adWtgz SvCY8q3rIiJeyrP4/F87qzvey3ac/skcWEH+XC7miInwRVSkRtrkwhbUHN7el4Njup rTOePP3xs6z43nneo8eiJwxq8H130gatuzGW6ZM8myg9X91qXBYcXET7pKOixsGqkA Im/oF5lfB3lyOFYas/X3gqIB89W8jFt2Z6gwBwVdzc7XEdlSfgYOxdzHuBEPWG9/3l 5XypHVocpqVsdIs0YXloLxHzFl/qIvS2vbBq78+7yP2bh7ndrSsslBwDow1RiZYVRN ZxpJ7Iu/uQjXmBTGfPeGtaYg= Received: from 99.100.19.101 (99-100-19-101.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLSv1.3:Kx=any:Au=any:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:06:40 -0700 Subject: Re: Paritioning scheme on MBR disk doubts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:06:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GwR5S0ZR4z3JJm X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=holgerdanske.com header.s=nov-20210719-112354 header.b=YZgXadT7; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=holgerdanske.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dpchrist@holgerdanske.com designates 184.105.128.27 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dpchrist@holgerdanske.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[holgerdanske.com:s=nov-20210719-112354]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[holgerdanske.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[holgerdanske.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:184.104.0.0/15, country:US]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:06:53 -0000 On 8/26/21 6:36 AM, Javier wrote: > Hi, 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