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Cc: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Slices
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Kevin Kinsey wrote:

>> OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot?
>>
>
> A word of probable caution (though I stand ready to be corrected):
>        FreeBSD isn't like Linux in the fact that it expects /boot to be
> in / (the 'a' slice of whatever disk the bootmgr has been instructed
> to use)... so a seperate /boot will likely get you in trouble....
>
You're not wrong. /boot directory should be on / partition.  This has 
come up before but my attempts to find the discussion failed :-(

Nitpickingly,  that's the "a" BSD-partition of whatever slice (aka 
"fdisk partition") of whatever disk bootmgr has been instructed
to use.

There nothing (except a crap BIOS or an ancient machine) to stop you 
from booting any of the 4 slices (apart from logical ones IIUC).  I've 
certainly had 3 different FreeBSD installations on a single disk before now.

--Alex