here has been different ways to update the FreeBSD ports collection over time.
However, this is the recommended, simple, network friendly and firewall friendly procedure for updating the FreeBSD ports collection using the portsnap utility, which updates via internet from a FreeBSD mirror.
This procedure assumes, that the ports collection has been installed prior to updating, [...]

Internal and external storage has to be prepared and formatted for the operating system FreeBSD to be able to use it. FreeBSD supports different ways to prepare storage. However, this is the recommended procedure for preparing and formatting internal or external storage for use with FreeBSD in a way, that is supported and compatible.
Create a [...]