I have a pre-2015 MBP that runs MacOS X and Windows 7. There is about 70 GB of free space at the end of the SSD. I figured, why not install FreeBSD on it and have a neat triple boot setup.
I'd like to use ZFS but
This is the output of
I'd like to use ZFS but
bsdinstall
doesn't handle automatic partitioning with ZFS very well in this case. It by default wants to use the entire SSD. The only option seems to be the manual partitioning approach, but I'm not sure what I would need to do to make sure it's done correctly and is able to boot.This is the output of
gpart
on the system using the bootable installation image
Code:
=> 34 977104993 ada0 GPT (466G)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 237144560 2 apple-hfs (113G)
237554200 1269544 3 apple-boot (620M)
238823744 1728 - free - (864K)
238825472 583036928 4 ms-basic-data (278G)
821862400 155242627 - free - (74G)
=> 34 977104993 diskid/DISK-S1K5NYAF540231 GPT (466G)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 237144560 2 apple-hfs (113G)
237554200 1269544 3 apple-boot (620M)
238823744 1728 - free - (864K)
238825472 583036928 4 ms-basic-data (278G)
821862400 155242627 - free - (74G)