Solved Formatting disk for ZFS

freezr · Sunday at 5:24 PM

Hi guys,

the handbook doesn't give any advise on how preparing a disk for ZFS, there is only this example for UFS:

Code:

# gpart create -s GPT ada1
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 1M ada1

Is it a right setting changing the example like this:

Code:

# gpart create -s GPT ada1
# gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -a 1M ada1

Thanks...

atax1a · Sunday at 5:32 PM

yep, pretty much. Then you zpool create on those partitions.

Emrion · Sunday at 5:53 PM

It's a good idea to use partitions for zfs and not the raw disk.
It will avoid future headaches.