From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Nov 12 15:14:45 2016 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 6864CC3D70D for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.227]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "cdptpa-oedge", Issuer "cdptpa-oedge" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32AAA12D1 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [76.181.114.47] ([76.181.114.47:52882] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id E3/9E-04822-DD137285; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:14:37 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.40] (helo=baho-utot.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1c5a0r-0007gL-0M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:14:37 -0500 To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: Baho Utot Subject: Installing to RaidZ-1 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:14:36 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.88:25 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, 12 Nov 2016 15:14:45 -0000 I want to reinstall my desktop system using a raidz-1 filesystem using the current installation image for usb drive. Reading the handbook I find that bsdinstall will not do the installation I want. I am using 4 1TB drives and I want to partition to 800GB and install the raidz there. Can I create a raidz storage pool manually and then use bsdinstall or will I have to manually install freebsd not using bsdinstall? How do I do this?