From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 14 15:28:19 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DF6C808AB for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:80:80::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7821E197B for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (lava.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:5::11]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id uBEFRcnj052502 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:27:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:c5ab:271e:71df:7352] ([IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:c5ab:271e:71df:7352]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.15.2/8.14.9) with ESMTP id uBEFRbtm024040 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:27:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) To: freebsd-questions From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Installing FreeBSD on size limited ZFS partition Organization: Sentex Communications Message-ID: <1bc50da5-d92e-a06d-ddbb-d95b23ffdc24@sentex.net> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:27:39 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:19 -0000 I have a couple of servers I want to put back to back on HAST with ZFS. However, I am stuck at how the best way to do this at install time. Normally, when you choose ZFS at install time, it uses the entire disk by creating the boot partition(p0), swap(p1) and freebsd-zfs (p3). I want to be able to control the size of partition 3 so that its NOT the entire disk, so that I leave enough space on the disk to later create a second ZFS pool that I can then configure HAST for. What is the best way to do this ? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/