I am setting up a dual-boot system and i am confused about the partitions needed for FreeBSD.
The computer boots via BIOS and it uses the GPT partitioning scheme.
My disk has 3 partitions so far:
1. 16MB - Bios Boot
2. 100GB - ext4
3. 4GB - Linux swap
I am now about to create the partitions for the FreeBSD installation.
The handbook says:
But last time i checked, my other FreeBSD 12.2 machine doesn't have a freebsd-boot partition, only one UFS and one freebsd-swap. But this one uses MBR rather than GPT.
My questions:
1. Do i need a freebsd-boot partition in my current setup or does it work without?
2. Given that i only want a single partition for / and one for swap.
Can i use a single additional slice and create 2 partitions in it or should i create 2 more slices? Are there differences performance-wise?
TIA
The computer boots via BIOS and it uses the GPT partitioning scheme.
My disk has 3 partitions so far:
1. 16MB - Bios Boot
2. 100GB - ext4
3. 4GB - Linux swap
I am now about to create the partitions for the FreeBSD installation.
The handbook says:
A standard FreeBSD GPT installation uses at least three partitions:
- freebsd-boot - Holds the FreeBSD boot code.
- freebsd-ufs - A FreeBSD UFS file system.
- freebsd-zfs - A FreeBSD ZFS file system. More information about ZFS is available in The Z File System (ZFS).
- freebsd-swap - FreeBSD swap space.
But last time i checked, my other FreeBSD 12.2 machine doesn't have a freebsd-boot partition, only one UFS and one freebsd-swap. But this one uses MBR rather than GPT.
My questions:
1. Do i need a freebsd-boot partition in my current setup or does it work without?
2. Given that i only want a single partition for / and one for swap.
Can i use a single additional slice and create 2 partitions in it or should i create 2 more slices? Are there differences performance-wise?
TIA