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Date:      Sun, 7 Jan 1996 03:11:24 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd question.. ;-)
Message-ID:  <199601061611.DAA31297@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> The disk was "dangerously dedicated".  Should that matter?

>Yes, that matters.  Read my other posting.

>Sysinstall always assignes ``sliced'' disk entries for everything
>except the root f/s.  Since disklabel -B destroys your fdisk table
>(which libdisk has been creating fine, even in the `dangerously
>dedicated' case), your slices are invalid.

The `dangerously dedicated' case should give a dummy fdisk table
identical to the one that `disklabel -B' writes, so `disklabel -B'
shouldn't affect the fdisk table.

Bruce



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