Adding a new partition on an existing slice of a HDD

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FreeBSD 8.3. I have HDD(1,8TB), that contains one slice (1,8 TB). The slice has 700 GB free space. It has several partitions /dev/ar0s1a - /dev/ar0s1e. I tried to create a new partition on an existing slice of the HDD - /dev/ar0s1f
  1. mkdir the new mount point /reposit
  2. On sysinstall menu select Configure->Label->select the slice and press C->specify the created mountpoint and partition size->press W
In the second step when I press w it gives an error:

Code: 
Unable to add /dev/ar0s1b as swap device busy

Then I choose OK and then I get:

Code: 
Error mounting /dev/ar0s1f on /reposit: No such file or directory

After exit from sysinstall, the /dev/ar0s1f was not created. After rebooting the /dev/ar0s1f was not created.

Therefore I can not use newfs /dev/ar0s1f to format the new partition of the slice of the HDD.

Any suggestions?
 
Do not use sysinstall(8) any more. For anything. It's obsolete and the disk partitioning was never very safe for existing partitions.

Please show the output of gpart show.
 
Today gpart show command result
Code: 
=>         0  3907007937  ar0s1  BSD  (1.8T)
           0     3907007      1  freebsd-ufs  (1.9G)
     3907007    24903100      2  freebsd-swap  (11G)
    28810107    25878197      4  freebsd-ufs  (12G)
    54688304  2352319633      5  freebsd-ufs  (1.1T)
  2407007937  1000000000      6  freebsd-ufs  (476G)
  3407007937   500000000         - free -  (238G)

476G - the new partition
And newfs /dev/ar0s1f formatted it.
It surprise for me.

The yesterday newfs /dev/ar0s1f does not work, as since /dev/ar0s1f was absent

But how to create a disk partition without bsdlabel -e and sysinstall?
 
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