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Cc: Deian Popov <deianp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: expanding /usr
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> to it.    /usr/local  and  /usr/src  are often good candidates.
>
> To do that, create the partition using fdisk (for the slice), then

if it's freebsd-only drive, why using fdisk at all?

i live very well without it on ALL machines i installed.

you simply get (for example)

/dev/ad0a instead of ad0s1a etc.

you bsdlabel ad0 instead of ad0s1.

don't forget to bsdlabel -B ad0 if it's boot disk

replace ad0 to whatever your disk is