some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting

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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:08:27 -0800
David Christensen wrote:


> The most obvious downside is that MBR does not support labels.  So,
> the FreeBSD boot system uses device node names.  This means I have to
> ensure that the system drive is always ada0

You can use glabel to label the drive, or label the
individual partitions.