From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 15 10:39:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3EAD3D61D for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x22b.google.com (mail-qk0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CF23C97 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qk0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id p68so80352562qke.1 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 03:39:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=l1hCizuFWhFRuSvL3vF7fGiAgLGam4j/OKytd68/WLA=; b=rXK3SXv3llhdKyLRiV49xOcrf9HCR1wohyEQbnQaKLRL4acKXg8awOzioZexG6SLF2 T8FhBYC9ppmIgS/ZThgNaWX8zCl4SwBso/LCwj9ybzcYcQUaS11opIScDlfHKxjOYtb6 GbG2fx8LQFHy3Py78BwBd5mY5QwYd5cz5LDbwGGLAUKnKGsxQLbrfsyPGxcVuEF7Q+Jl sWUtv+CXxKfJRBYgVTjELHGX62hGlRGmHdn118Z+ENH13W2CbhOXzHXuvBbcwbLLAZQ+ w11f/Mt3hP4FEYxFsEEC9z6U7/RGzgPeXyGmqDMfAW3t689Rlif4T2o68/+3aF0+xvs5 dzMw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=l1hCizuFWhFRuSvL3vF7fGiAgLGam4j/OKytd68/WLA=; b=aQE9el4JoAMo2405z7iyE/sL4RNEnjFdVcfJBcLJKIGrpqHeQ82vSW6YxR/4RzxiTz 6SEg018GsHi1zfs3TsJUBbyTsmISew4HQOAo5U2TGylixIuLBZBNKcypnqgBSbX9DiRm sSk1sdDsFxTXtOSQ1J1GAoRoyR+iN4nCT7sUMOLK4Q6ax4QJK+2y8i35VsEpK8X0Sz2D VY/cFke8zoyOwx5qYAOhuJJrJ7UHInXOhBipZq6iU7So/6FNhq3AC+qI1YsiXdj83bVd ExY3rBlpjl7C1MnZkyveXxJkEfvFrORIZnPVDZzksw4fo/4j8dYhlyq8Rr8MWoNRL99k 2moQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/67yZQdvPfomlJakgBzBrVvi6w9J9/aM3A03Ur8Ua3ck6yiOYUv ecjzQlG6pwH8Mx3+79dFmbE8AxePfg== X-Received: by 10.55.20.8 with SMTP id e8mr1316204qkh.35.1492252741775; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 03:39:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.12.183.158 with HTTP; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 03:39:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: krad Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:39:01 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is it possible to install FreeBSD on a single MBR slice with ZFS To: Manish Jain Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:39:03 -0000 it works fine on a single slice. I would probably do a manual install to be safe, but thats just me, but then I was doing rootonzfs way before the installation program supported it. On 15 April 2017 at 10:55, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I always use freebsd-ufs for my installations. But I am interested in > trying freebsd-zfs. My box has a single hard disk, an SSD with 4 MBR > slices. > > From what I could gather from the installer, it is not possible to use > freebsd-zfs for / for a single slice. It looks to me like ZFS needs the > whole disk. > > Am I wrong ? Is there any way I can get the installer to use ZFS for a > single slice. > > Thanks for any information > Manish Jain > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >