[Bug 263232] FreeBSD Handbook: potentially confusing descriptions of UFS and GELI

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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 04:26:16 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263232

            Bug ID: 263232
           Summary: FreeBSD Handbook: potentially confusing descriptions
                    of UFS and GELI
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/docum
                    entation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.a
                    doc#6-allocating-disk-space
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

From
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#bsdinstall-partitioning>: 

> * Auto (UFS) partitioning automatically sets up the disk partitions 
>   using the UFS file system.
> 
> * …
> 
> * …
> 
> * Auto (ZFS) partitioning creates a root-on-ZFS system with optional 
>   GELI encryption support for boot environments.

UFS is not used for the swap partition, and so on. 

geli(8) is not solely for 'Auto (ZFS)', and is not boot environment-oriented.

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