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Subject: Re: raid or not raid
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> how come there is ad4s1b and ad4s1c when those names don't appear in the
> fstab or df?

Very often ad4s1b will be the swap and ad4s1c the full slice.

That is not an absolute rule, but it is very much recommended (at
least for ad4s1c) to keep it equivalent to the full slice.

Olivier