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Boot-time volume restrictions

Volumes on the root disk differ from other volumes in that they have very specific restrictions on their configuration:

In addition to these requirements, it is a good idea to have at least one contiguous, (cylinder-aligned if appropriate) mirror for each of the volumes for root, usr, var, opt and swap. This makes it easier to convert these from volumes back to regular disk partitions (during an operating system upgrade, for example).