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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Gary Palmer wrote:

> BSD disklabel is limited to a maximum of 8 slices per MBR partition.

Careful.  disklabel/bsdlabel creates FreeBSD "partitions", up to 8 per 
MBR partition (FreeBSD "slice").

Instead of three different things that share two names, GPT only has 
partitions.