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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1096063835.9306.130.camel at zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes
:
>On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:50, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <1096056348.9306.87.camel at zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes:
>
>> >I believe the above is bsdlabel's idea of an "auto" label.  I don't know
>> >why the 16 sector offset for the "a" partition, because you don't get
>> >that when you label a slice via sysinstall and choose the "auto
>> >defaults."  (Maybe there's a case for making bsdlabel's "auto" label
>> >behave the same as sysinstall.)
>> 
>> The 16 offset is to protect the disklabel and boot code.  You have no
>> idea how much I hate the person who made the hack to leave the metadata
>> inside the trafic partitions.
>
>So I guess the case to be made is really to have sysinstall behave the
>same as bsdlabel, not vice versa.

yes.

>I'm presuming sysinstall-style partition-a-starts-at-offset-0 labels are
>still safe, though, right?

As "safe" as they always were, which means "not very".  They have a
tendency to blow up on people if they try to change them.


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