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Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 10:57:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Dick van den Burg <burg@is.ge.com>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        Dick van den Burg <burg@perf.is.ge.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to add slice to existing FS
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On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Dick van den Burg wrote:
> the slice to FBSD and the just do a newfs. In my case the FBSD slice
> that contains the root filesystem is before the new fs in slice 3. If
> this was not the case, would I be able to boot from the second slice
> of type 165? The boot prompt only allows a drive and a partition, not
> a slice.

no, not with the  present code,
however my new code would allow this IF there was no 'a' partition
in the first slice, and you specified an 'a' partition.