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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-08-05 14:33:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-08-05 16:56:32 +0000 |
| commit | 2238c247d4a487ea7c94e6990eccb537bb44c603 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a217680b9238d506ff6bcba4d00220006fd5020 /documentation/content/en/books/handbook | |
| parent | 6d563a2e672a0a32fbf7bcc32f315a99c8ac311e (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc index 5f24e4c43f..83acfe30e7 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/_index.adoc @@ -634,7 +634,8 @@ The `Size` may be entered with common abbreviations: _K_ for kilobytes, _M_ for ==== Proper sector alignment provides the best performance, and making partition sizes even multiples of 4K bytes helps to ensure alignment on drives with either 512-byte or 4K-byte sectors. Generally, using partition sizes that are even multiples of 1M or 1G is the easiest way to make sure every partition starts at an even multiple of 4K. -There is one exception: the _freebsd-boot_ partition should be no larger than 512K due to current boot code limitations. +There is one exception: a _freebsd-boot_ partition for BIOS booting should be no larger than 512K due to legacy boot code limitations. +This limitation does not apply to UEFI booting. ==== A `Mountpoint` is needed if the partition will contain a file system. |