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Subject: Re: partition for GELI disk
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Ulrich Spoerlein <q@galgenberg.net> writes:
> Thanks for that explanation. So does bsdlabel take this offset into
> account for the '*'? This never worked for me ...

No, instead of interpreting * as "whatever is left until the beginning
of the next fixed partition", it interprets it as "the size of the
slice minus the sum of the sizes of the other partitions".

DES
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