> Ok, if it hasn't been written to disk then where is the
> partition information persisting from?  I guess thats whats
> confusing me the most.  I mean shouldn't the 'e' partition
> disappear after a reboot if the label isn't written to disk?

There is code in the kernel to 'magic up' this disklabel
from the bios partition table.

This is, in fact, always done - but usually overwridden
by the netbsd disklabel.

	David

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