Am 23.02.2003 um 14:50 Uhr -0500  schrub Roland Dowdeswell:
>disklabel -r will scan the front or the disk
>[using the raw device] for the disklabel, whereas the kernel will
>look for the disklabel in a fixed position.

Actually, this varies with the port.

At least sparc (and mac68k in its track) scans the first 8 KByte of 
the disk in four byte strides for valid magic numbers that indicate a 
disklabel. The code  was probably modelled after the disklabel(8) 
behaviour.

	hauke

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