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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning 1T HDD
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Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:40:27 -0700
> Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FreeBSD defaults to putting everything in one partition. There is no
>> requirement for more than one.
>
> Good to know! But what if I want to dual-boot a Linux distro as well?
> Do I allow space for it beforehand, i.e while I'm partitioning for
> FreeBSD? OR do I shrink the FreeBSD partition while trying to install
> the Linux distro?

Just leave it unused for now. There's no need to complicate things.