Hello,

diskspace is getting cheaper nowadays and the number of primary
slices (partitions) proportionally stays the same and several OS'
love primary slices.
So far I have a `master' OS which permanently occupies a slice and
which remaps slice entries of `slave' OS'. But when I have slave1
OS running and want to reboot to slave2 OS I first reboot the master
OS and do the remapping before I reboot slave2 OS.

What happens with FreeBSD if it's slice entry is removed in the MBR
before it is shutdown? Can it safely shutdown and unmount like this?

The slice entries in the MBR are probably needed by the boot
selector, by fdisk, by disklabel and when mounting foreign
filesystems and maybe by fsck.
Is a valid slice entry required by FreeBSD before/during shutdown?

-Hanspeter

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