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    How to merge different mount points into the root filesystem?

    I had an error, but didn't know that journaling was the cause, the two filesystem were mounted: mfsbsd# dump -C16 -b64 -OuanL -h0 -f - /p.rootfs0/ | ( cd /backup/ && restore -ruf - ) DUMP: WARNING: Cannot use -L on an unmounted filesystem. dump: /p.rootfs0/: unknown file system Tape is not a...
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    How to merge different mount points into the root filesystem?

    ok this is how I made it: 1) Reboot from a FreeBSD live cd. Personally I used mfsBSD which wasn't the best idea, since it's old and does not support ufs with journaling. At distrowatch you can see more alternatives 2) Attach a new disk / pendrive empty 3) Create a gpt partition on new...
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    Is there a graphical partition manager for FreeBSD?

    PCBSD is FreeBSD but provides some gui for install and a pbi manager to install "packages" like chrome and such, so you don't have to compile from source. Of course, the freebsd ports and everything is 100% compatible, is like installing freebsd and spend a hundred hours configuring it.
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    How to merge different mount points into the root filesystem?

    The main have exactly the same partition type and mount options: [pcbsd@pcbsd-1126] ~% cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/label/rootfs0 / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/swap1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/label/var0 /var ufs rw,noatime 1 1 /dev/label/usr0 /usr ufs...
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    SSD with embedded hardware 256-bit AES full disk encryption

    You are right, almost all Sandforce controllers are troublesome.
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    How to merge different mount points into the root filesystem?

    And hitting back (backspace) didn't bring back the filled textbox? For example, what should I be aware of?
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    How to merge different mount points into the root filesystem?

    Say that I use the default partitioning scheme, which is [pcbsd@pcbsd-1126] ~% df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0 2G 409M 1.4G 22% / devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev /dev/label/var0 2G...
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    FreeBSD accessed via grub2

    To automatically add the entry when using update-grub don't just edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg but too the script that creates that file. Add to /etc/grub.d/filename this: #!/bin/bash echo "Adding Custom PC-BSD system" >&2 cat << EOF menuentry "PC-BSD_Unix_KDE" { set root=(hd0,2)...
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    FreeBSD accessed via grub2

    How to boot FreeBSD 8.0 or PC-BSD 8.0 with grub2: menuentry "FreeBSD 8.0 (on /dev/ad0s2)" { set root=(hd0,2) chainloader +1 boot } Considering that you have installed the FreeBSD bootloader at the beginning of the ad0s2 partition (not in MBR) an additional menu will display (at least...
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