What is the role of a disk label in a BSD system?

It stores metadata about disk slices, including their sizes, offsets, and filesystem types.

It contains the boot code that loads the operating system.

It tracks the filesystem's free space and inode usage.

It assigns a human-readable name to the disk for identification in /dev.

A FreeBSD administrator is setting up a new disk (da1) that will be used for a ZFS pool. The disk has no MBR or disklabel. The administrator wants to use the entire disk for ZFS. What is the recommended approach?

Use disklabel -w da1 auto to create a default label, then create the ZFS pool on the 'c' slice.

Create an MBR with a single FreeBSD partition, then create a disklabel with one slice covering the entire partition.

Use gpart to create a GPT partition table with a single FreeBSD partition, then create a ZFS pool on that partition.

Use fdisk -I da1 to create a default MBR, then create the ZFS pool on the whole disk.

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712.1 BSD Partitioning and Disk Labels (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Topic 712: Storage Devices and BSD Filesystems domain, which makes up ~19% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~7–11 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 19 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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1foundation · easy
Which command is used to create a new disk slice table or modify existing slices on a BSD system?
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2foundation · easy
What is the role of a disk label in a BSD system?
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3foundation · easy
Which command is used to view the current disk slice table and disk label information on a BSD system?
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4application · medium
A FreeBSD administrator is setting up a new disk (da1) that will be used for a ZFS pool. The disk has no MBR or disklabel. The administrator wants to use the entire disk for ZFS. What is the recommended approach?
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5application · medium
A FreeBSD administrator is preparing a disk for a system that will dual-boot FreeBSD and Linux. The disk currently has no partition table. The administrator wants to create an MBR with two partitions: one for Linux (type 0x83) and one for FreeBSD (type 0xA5). Which command should be used to create this MBR?
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712.1 BSD Partitioning and Disk Labels (weight: 2) BSD-SPECIALIST Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

Which command is used to create a new disk slice table or modify existing slices on a BSD system?

What is the role of a disk label in a BSD system?

Which command is used to view the current disk slice table and disk label information on a BSD system?

A FreeBSD administrator is setting up a new disk (da1) that will be used for a ZFS pool. The disk has no MBR or disklabel. The administrator wants to use the entire disk for ZFS. What is the recommended approach?

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