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When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions 
about partioning:
I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard FreeBSD 
file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it.
Does this make sense?

BR,
Jos Chrispijn