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Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the
 same slice ?
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Shark Wang wrote:

>as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to 
>separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' .
>
>another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which 
>based on partitions layout that my gave?
>
>  
>
No, it isn't. ad0s1a would be the first blocks after the MBR.  Really, 
FreeBSD does not need or expect /boot to be separate so would not have 
put it at the front of the disk.  The only system I know which does that 
is Linux.  Out of curiosity, which "legacy Unix"?

--Alex