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From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
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Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd
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Hello!

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jos Backus wrote:
>> 2) (most important) NetBSD disklabel describes partitions not slice-relative
>>    (like ours), but the whole device-relative. They have no slice devices, so
>>    their disklabel actually duplicates functionality of device slice
>>    table, and describes both NetBSD partitions and other slices as partitions.
>
> Wouldn't this break the ability to move a FreeBSD partition using a
> non-FreeBSD aware tool such as Partition Magic?

   My patch modifies disklabel only for NetBSD partition (type 169),
and only in memory, not on disk. So it definitely won't affect
moving any partition using a non-FreeBSD aware tools.


Sincerely, Dmitry
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Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
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