Creating the Disk Labels
The disk is now sliced and made FreeBSD-friendly, but it still isn't formatted—you can't use it in your system yet. That's what we must do next, in the Disklabel Editor.
Still in sysinstall, select “Label”, the Disklabel Editor. You'll again be asked to select from the list of installed disks; use the spacebar to select ad1. You'll now be presented with the Disklabel Editor screen, a visual interface to the command-line disklabel command. This is where you assign the BSD partitions and format the disk.
Note
FreeBSD's Disklabel Editor doesn't allow you to resize existing partitions. A partition can't be modified without reformatting it and losing its data, so consider carefully what your partitions will be used for before ...
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