Creating the Disk Labels
The disk is now sliced and has been made FreeBSD-friendly, but it still isn’t formatted—you can’t use it in your system yet. You do that next, in the Disk Label Editor.
Still in Sysinstall, select Label (“The Disk Label Editor”). You’ll again be asked to select from the list of installed disks; use the spacebar to select ad1. You’re presented with the Disk Label Editor screen, a visual interface to the command-line disklabel command. This is where you assign the BSD partitions and format the disk.
Caution
FreeBSD’s Disk Label Editor doesn’t allow you to resize existing BSD partitions. A partition can’t be modified without reformatting it and losing its data, and FIPS (as discussed in Chapter 3, “Advanced Installation ...
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