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Date:      Sat, 7 Jul 2012 11:15:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207071114210.45763@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20120706202558.2a6d7e42.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> it without any problem. It _may_ be possible that some
> systems like "Windows" have trouble with this approach,

what trouble? Windows doesn't probably see anything.

anyway i would not risk running windows with FreeBSD containing disk 
connected at the same time anyway. it's always risky.

> To OP:
>
> If you omit the slice and just create two partitions (one for
> FS and one for swap), FreeBSD will use this fine. Just make
bsdlabel -B device is just enough after that



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