bsd != linux
After spending some quality time configuring my new freebsd file server I keep rediscovering this basic fact: linux commands don’t necessarily work on bsd. For instance take the simple `cp -a` — turns out there is no -a option in bsd’s cp command. So I stop, check the man page, and use -Rfp instead.
This is the n-teenth difference I’ve found so far, following disk slices, disklabel, and which device name to pass to the respective disk utilities.
Not that I’m complaining; I am pointing out an aspect of this learning curve: knowing linux prior to starting with bsd is a mixed blessing.