proper newfs options for SSD disk

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> El día Sunday, June 17, 2012 a las 09:16:12PM -0600, Warren Block escribió:
>
>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>
>>> OK, but I wanted to have most of the space of the 4 GB SSD encrypted
>>> with geli(8); so I should make there some slice containing /boot
>>> (unencrypted) and a second slice which later will contain my HOME and
>>> encrypted; wrong?
>>
>> That's correct: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29652
>
> Thanks for the pointers and the comments from you and Wojciech;
> I'm attaching below what I have planned as the exactly procedure now and
> would thank in advance for any comments;
>
> one remaining question is, how could I attache the geli(8) crypted file
> system during boot (via rc.conf) but using a passphrase which should be
> asked and typed in on boot? is this somehow possible?

When set up like that link, it does ask for the passphrase on startup.