[patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd

Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
Fri Mar 17 17:47:22 UTC 2006


Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua> writes:
> 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?

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Jos Backus
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