On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:05:31AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > As someone else pointed out, the in-core disk label is 'thrown away'
> > when the deveice is no longer in use - in this case as soom as
> > mbrlabel exits!
> 
> Unless a DIOCKLABEL has been done on that disk.  Which mbrlabel
> arguably should do, at least optionally, because of exactly this.

But unless there is a netbsd partition on the drive, there is nowhere
to write the label.  Writing it to (say) sector 1 could be bad news.

	David

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