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In message <20040112011539.S32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Narvi writes:

>oh yes - and please fix disklabel to support an arbirtary number of file
>system per a "disk" or "slice" in the process, because otherwise it will
>not be converting many setups.

We need to move to a different labeling format because bsdlabel has
a number of problems going forward.

GPT is our current candidate.

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