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On Jun 25, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Mike Jakubik wrote:

>>
>> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
>>
>
> The problem with these instructions is that they don't take in to  
> account the last sector. You may very well end up writing the  
> metadata on the file system.
>

When was the last time you fdisk'd a disk and it used the last sector  
on the drive? I always end up with a bunch of extra space that didn't  
fit into the round numbers of the file system.