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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> ...and metadata at the begining of the provider still doesn't fix 'c'
> partition problem and 'a' partition which starts at sector 0, which is
> the default start offset in sysinstall.

The c partition is a problem you have to address anyway (and it is
best addressed by removing the magicness of the c partition
altogether).  As for the a partition, I don't see the problem.  It is
not at the start of the slice, since the label comes first.

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