The 'sysinstall' BSD partition-table and mount point editor appears to be lacking in some features that are highly desirable to people building complex configurations with the O/S spread across multiple drives. For the 'usual' scenarios -- especially with modern high-capacity drives -- the case can be made, fairly convincingly, for using only a small number of filesystems (i.e., possibly as few as 2) on a large drive. There are, however, specialized (i.e., at least 'somewhat' esoteric :) situations where it _is_ desirable to use a much larger number of filesystems. Situations were you need to control the allocation of partition letters, _and_ 'where' on the slice that partiton 'lives'. Just like being able to edit the 'mount point', without deleting/re-creating the partition, it would be _very_ helpful to have a function that allowed one to change _which_ partition a given chunk of disk was named. That is, cursor to '{controller}d1s2g', say, and be able to 'change' the final character to any of the partitions (abdefh) that are not currently allocated any space.
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