Re: x86 disklabels - again

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> Now, when I create the disklabel for this drive, should the raw-part
> span the entire drive, or is it only for the NetBSD partition?  And

'd' spans the entire drive, 'c' spans the NetBSD partition.

> should the partition offsets be relative to the start of the disk,
> or relative to the NetBSD partition start?

The offsets are absolute.  FreeBSD uses "BSD disklabels" with relative
offsets, which is why we trash them...

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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