Modern FreeBSD Installer?

[Michael David Crawford]

The partitioner will allow you to create more partitions than the 
FreeBSD partition table will allow.  Rather than giving it the name of a 
special file in the /dev/directory, it will name it just "X".  You can 
create as many partitions named "X" as you like.

Then the newfs will fail.

I experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug 
report about it.

Mike
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