Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 11:51 PM
> From: "Don NetBSD" <netbsd-embedded%gmx.com@localhost>
> To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

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> But it isn't placed in any of these places unless/until the system is
> DIRECTED to do so.  I.e., you can access a brand-new, never-before-powered-on
> disk drive via the fictitious IN-KERNEL disklabel STRUCTURE.  But, need
> never actually write it to the medium to allow such access (on a NetBSD box).

IIUC, this is a subtle (but important) clarification.

> [I.e., write the entire medium -- except the label portion -- and mount it on
> some foreign OS and they won't see ANY label in place!  But, the DATA that
> you wrote will still be there!]

Yes, of course other OSs won't show anything! Amazing :).

Rocky