Based on an initial report by mdodd and some local debugging, expand

the description of at least one of the disklabel bugs: resizing
partitions can result in newfs failures due to a possible cache
coherency problem.
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<td>Changes in the disk label format have resulted in substantial <td>Changes in the disk label format have resulted in substantial
numbers of bug reports; these must be resolved by RC1.</td> numbers of bug reports; these must be resolved by RC1. At least
one known problem exists: partitions shrunk using disklabel -e
result in newfs on the resized partition failing with a maximum
file system size error.</td>
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