Which Filesystem for the NomadBSD image?

Hi,

ok, now that I know what “persistent” means, I would like to know which file system I should put onto my usb external storage in order to “dd” the .img of the latest nomadbsd onto it.

Playing around with zfs, which seems to be interesting technically speaking, but somehow refuses “dd-ing” to it, I’m not sure how to proceed.

Should I just wipe out the whole usb storage and leave without any filesystem at all to “dd” nomadbsd onto it? Unfortunately, I haven’t found the tools for creating an ufs partition or something similar under linux.

Sorry, if this question sounds a little basic, but the documentation just tells me about the dd command, but forgets to mention the required filesystem.

Kind regards

I’m not an expert. Personally I use UFS on old machines with USB 2 and/or less than 8 GB RAM. For everything else with 8 GB or more and USB 3 or internal SSD, I choose the ZFS file system.

The dd command makes a copy of the image file (here NomadBSD) and this includes the file system from the image. You don’t need to worry about that. The dd command is very powerful. Be careful with it and double check the right device to use. Use the dd like in the documentation and after finishing, put it in your machine and boot from it.

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The problem is that ZFS does not seem to be compatible with dd. Nothing is written on it in my case. So I guess that I should just format the usb storage device with ext4 and use dd to copy NomadBSD over.

But this could be stated a little clearer in the documentation, couldn’t it?