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• Installing FreeBSD - Standard Installation
  ... Partition Sizes]] for a review of what might be placed on these different partitions. Dandy! Hit "Q" to save your changes, and we'll keep this thing rolling ri
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• Boot Manager
  ...select from multiple operating systems installed on various hard drives or partitions. It's pretty basic, just presenting the user with a (default ten second) c
  1 KB (231 words) - 21:24, 25 August 2012
• Drive letters
  ...d tmp. In the Unix-like world, however, all of these separate devices and partitions are treated equally as parts of the same overall filesystem - so a listing ... and /cdrom are all subdirectories of /, even though they are all separate partitions and devices.
  2 KB (389 words) - 17:48, 5 May 2007
• USB storage
  ...'''. Knowing that, let's check to see what we've got in the way of disk [[partitions]] and [[slices]] on the drive:
  4 KB (620 words) - 05:10, 10 April 2009
• Encrypted Filesystems
  To encrypt swap partitions the {{man|geli|8}} program is useful. Open the file {{file|/etc/fstab}} and You can automount encrypted partitions with 2 rc.conf variables:
  3 KB (561 words) - 08:40, 1 November 2015
• Single-user mode
  ...will be the root user. This mode is needed if you want to unmount crucial partitions like '''/usr''' or '''/var''', ie for [[fsck]]-ing purposes. (You can [[fs
  3 KB (490 words) - 20:12, 10 May 2006
• Links
  ...evice boundaries (ie a symlink from /var to /usr when they are on separate partitions or separate physical devices entirely). You CANNOT hardlink across device
  2 KB (300 words) - 07:00, 8 February 2011
• Etc/fstab
  ...'fstab''' file shown above, we can see entries for all the standard system partitions, as well as /cdrom and /mnt/usbdrive. The first column in each entry denot Also note that while the normal partitions are marked "rw", for ReadWrite, the CD-ROM is marked "ro" since it's a Read
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• RAID1, Software, How to setup
  ...irroring on an existing FreeBSD system. The goal is to convert all system partitions - including / and swap - from using the original system drive to running on
  5 KB (791 words) - 21:55, 25 August 2012
• Gotchas, Linux
  ... disks are no longer /dev/hda or /dev/sda. Now they are /dev/ad0s1a. See [[partitions]].
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• Partitioning Tips and Tricks
  You may find [[Hard Disk Partition Sizes]] useful if you are setting up partitions for the first time. ...get that you can use [[ln]] to do really nifty things with your drives and partitions. For example if you've made a too small {{file|/usr}} partition and a very
  5 KB (922 words) - 05:09, 11 February 2018
• Hard Disk Partition Sizes
  ...rees FreeBSD from being limited to a rather inconvenient number of 4 or so partitions. Read the handbook carefully for more details As of FreeBSD 6.0, sysinstall will create partitions sized approximately as follows by default:
  9 KB (1,636 words) - 21:12, 22 August 2015
• Updating to FreeBSD 6.0
  ... usually large data directories and home directories that are on their own partitions or drives do not need to be backed up (more than usual). These are simply u
  9 KB (1,475 words) - 12:11, 3 January 2009
• Filesystem, Missing Space
  ...lps keep the system from immediately crashing when users fill up important partitions, and ensures that the system administrator will be able to buy himself/hers
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• Tunefs
  ...deleting gigabytes upon gigabytes of dead files, moving stuff to different partitions, etc) were necessary.
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• ZFS, booting from (pre 9.0-RELEASE)
  ===Create the boot, swap and zfs partitions=== Create 3 partitions on both drives ad0 and ad1. The first partition contains the gptzfsboot loa
  7 KB (1,027 words) - 21:59, 25 August 2012
• ZFS, booting from
  ===Create the boot, swap and zfs partitions=== Create 3 partitions on both drives ada0 and ada1. The first partition contains the gptzfsboot l
  5 KB (855 words) - 21:58, 25 August 2012
• Desktop, troubleshooting
  ...o single user mode, then remount the drive using {{cmd|mount -u /}}. Other partitions required for start-up may have to manually be mounted. To make it easier, y
  2 KB (253 words) - 15:18, 10 February 2018