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On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	If memory servers, the slices I created were
> 	ad0s2	/
> 	ad0s3	SWAP
> 	ad0s4	/usr

People normally create a BSD partition table within an FDISK partition, 
so / would be on ad0s2a, rather than using all of ad0s2 for a single 
filesystem.  Then you can put swap on ad0s2b, and so forth and just use 
on FDISK partition, rather than using three...

-- 
-Chuck