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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fdisk partition info
Date: 27 Jul 1995 09:31:05 +0200
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Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>would it be possible to blow away slice 1
> ...
>or do the slices need to be in order that the
>partitions reside on the disk?
They never had to be in any particular order. The only exception is,
if you're going to create _two_ FreeBSD slices, only the one located
in the ``earlier'' FDISK slot will be bootable.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)