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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:34:56 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Deian Popov <deianp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: expanding /usr
Message-ID:  <20080204193311.O9109@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080204165546.GE7685@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <bfc2b10c0802040212u5fb598f7s9f69343a46b75232@mail.gmail.com> <20080204165546.GE7685@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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> to it.    /usr/local  and  /usr/src  are often good candidates.
>
> To do that, create the partition using fdisk (for the slice), then

if it's freebsd-only drive, why using fdisk at all?

i live very well without it on ALL machines i installed.

you simply get (for example)

/dev/ad0a instead of ad0s1a etc.

you bsdlabel ad0 instead of ad0s1.

don't forget to bsdlabel -B ad0 if it's boot disk

replace ad0 to whatever your disk is



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