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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:05:22 -0600 (MDT)
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Gmail (tzoi516) wrote:

> The FreeBSD Handbook is a great source. Will section 4.5 be updated to reflect and amplify on the information in 2.7? I didn't realize 4.5 was MBR specific initially. Thanks.

The MBR-specific information in that section and the rest of the 
Handbook needs to be factored out into a disk storage section.  I've 
proposed this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2013-July/022326.html

It's a big project, and only a few things have been done so far.