Partitioning 1T HDD

Duke Normandin sidney.reilley.ii at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 18:07:54 UTC 2021


On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:14:07 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Duke Normandin <sidney.reilley.ii at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:40:27 -0700
> > Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> FreeBSD defaults to putting everything in one partition. There is no
> >> requirement for more than one.
> >
> > Good to know! But what if I want to dual-boot a Linux distro as well?
> > Do I allow space for it beforehand, i.e while I'm partitioning for
> > FreeBSD? OR do I shrink the FreeBSD partition while trying to install
> > the Linux distro?
> 
> Just leave it unused for now. There's no need to complicate things.

Will do!! Much obliged!
-- 
Duke


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