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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote:

> Is it possible to disklabel a logical partition? We tried to disklabel
> the first logical partition as
> 	disklabel -w /dev/rsd0s5 auto

No.  FreeBSD requires it's own slice for it's filesystems.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major