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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?
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>>
>> http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml
>
> That is EXTREMELY old advice.
completely irrevelant now.

Why so many people blindly repeat some rules without understanding it. 
Even years after that rule no longer matters.

The other example is creating lots of partitions.