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Subject: Different sysinstall labelling behaviour when run post-install vs.
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Yesterday I was upgrading the disk in one of my workstations.  Since I =
was
planning on growing the filesystems for my FreeBSD install at the same =
time,
I needed to manually create a new disklabel.  I used sysinstall for =
this,
but ran into a problem: sysinstall doesn't allocate the partition =
letters,
with 'a' first, if you aren't doing an initial install.  I ended up =
using
the "auto defaults" option to create the 'a' partition, then remove
everything and create them as I wanted.  I'm glad to say that it worked =
out
just fine, but this problem raises a couple of questions:

Why does sysinstall behave differently when run post-install?

How do I manually specify or change the partition letter to use?