>From: "Paul Hollow (3Y0)" <ph-a@ugrad.cs.york.ac.uk>
>Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 17:21:23 +0100

>Disklabel creates the extra partition, but resets whatever name i give it
>("msdos") to "unused".

>        g:   409568       32    MS-DOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
>199*)

Try "MSDOS" or "MS-DOS" instead of "msdos".  I believe a list of the
valid disklabel type names is declared in <sys/disklabel.h>.

>        (The comment on the end isn't necessary.  Only the partition
>        letter, size, offset, and parition type are needed.  You can
>        put unused in instead of MS-DOS if you want).

Note that the last sentence in this comment is no longer true.
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