FreeBSD can boot from a ZFS root using either a MBR formated disk or GPT formated disk. Requirements: FreeBSD install image that contains the Livefs Fixit environment

Create ZFS file system hierarchy. Configure Boot Environment. Finish install. 1. Manually Installing FreeBSD on ZFS. This guide assumes you want to manually creating the pool, to change default...

Because the live environment's root file system is read-only, I manually mounted the ZFS pool on After installing FreeBSD, I configured the pool to use the "root" file system for booting and set the...

ZFS on FreeBSD is an incredible file system. One of the current limitations when installing FreeBSD 9 is you can not install the OS to a ZFS root pool from inside the default installer.

Yes, that's right this video shows how to install a full ZFS system using bsdinstall, on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE...

Create any file systems you desire under the new pool. I am only going to separate /home in this A fully-manual installation of FreeBSD just to get ZFS up and running for the root file system... but I...

FreeBSD ZFS Root is neato and worth spending the effort to install/setup. Here's how to pull it off a one-off installation in about 5 minutes, from start to finish… depending on how fast you type and how...

zfs create zroot/usr zfs create zroot/usr/home zfs create zroot/var zfs create -o compression=on -o « HOWTO: ZFS Create new zpool and zfs mountpoints on FreeBSD 9. FIX: postfix stop logging in...

It is not specific to FreeBSD ZFS but will apply as well for most things. 294 [2:38] roberto@lonrach> slogin -v root@newmachine FreeBSD 11.-RELEASE-p1 (GENERIC) #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43...

gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-zfs da0 gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-zfs da1 gpart add -s 10G -t Now that we have encrypted and mounted the partitions, we can build a ZFS root filesystem on top of it...

...swap, root, var, tmp, usr: Используем схему GPT (не MBR) gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -t i 1 ada0 gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l gpswap -s 1024M ada0 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l gproot -s 4G...

I would like to install freebsd10 with root-on-zfs on these drives, but only use a small (12GB) I cannot figure out how to tell the freebsd10 installer to only use 'ada0p2' and 'ada1p2' as my mirror for...