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Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, questions@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?
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The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the 
FreeBSD partition table will allow.  Rather than giving it the name of a 
special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X".  You can 
create as many partitions named "X" as you like.

Then the newfs will fail.

I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug 
report about it.

Mike
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