FreeBSD Defaults to UFS

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dangermouse

Hi, I’m attempting to do manual partitioning, as I’m running Windows/Linux for Work.

However when creating / it defaults to UFS on my Dell Laptop, is this because there is only a single NVMe drive? Or am I doing something wrong?
 
Is this a shared NVME drive, or is FreeBSD the only system? If shared, it may default to UFS. However, user patovm04 has a tutorial on the forums about using a ZFS partition on a shared drive. It's a bit trickier but not that difficult.

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Thread '[UEFI/GPT] [Dual-Boot] How to install FreeBSD (with ZFS) alongside another OS (sharing the same disk)'

Important notes:
1) This tutorial assumes you have the OS you want to dual-boot with already installed on your drive, and that you already have freed up some disk space. Essentially, you will be installing FreeBSD with root-on-ZFS on the remaining free space of the disk, instead of using the entire drive as it's done by default by FreeBSD's installer.
2) This method only works for GPT disk layouts using UEFI mode. Legacy BIOS and MBR disks are not supported. As always, make sure to disable Secure Boot and Fast Boot.
3) Here, we use ada0 (disk 1) for everything, and we assume your...
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Yes it’s a shared drive with 2 partitions of W11P & Debian. Thank you for your guidance, I’ll have a look at the tutorial. 👍
 
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