> Thomas, thank you for reply! No, it wasn't dangerously dedicated disk.

> However, what is the exact command to add ad4s1 and ad4s3 using
> bsdlabel? Is it possible  at all? I thought I should use fdisk or
> gpart for that.

> Thanks,
> Sergi M

You use fdisk to create what FreeBSD calls slices such as ad4s1, ad4s2, ad4s3
and disklabel to subdivide a slice into FreeBSD partitions such as ad4s1a,
ad4s1b, ad4s1c, etc.  gpart is used to create GPT partitions such as ad4p1,
ad4p2, ad4p3, etc.  Subdividing a slice into FreeBSD partitions is used with
MBR partition/slice table but not recommended with GPT.

The online FreeBSD bsdlabel man page is online at

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

One example given is

This is an example disk label that uses some of the new partition size
     types such as %, M, G, and *, which could be used as a source file for
     ``bsdlabel -R ad0s1 new_label_file'':

         # /dev/ad0s1:

         8 partitions:
         #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
           a:   400M       16    4.2BSD     4096 16384    75     # (Cyl.    0 - 
812*)
           b:     1G        *      swap
           c:      *        *    unused
           e: 204800        *    4.2BSD
           f:     5g        *    4.2BSD
           g:      *        *    4.2BSD

but you would have to replace the * with actual appropriate numbers.

After you install the disklabel, you could mount each data partition, but not
the swap partition, to see if the directory and file structure looks right.

Tom
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