Subject: Re: New NetBSD install
To: Andreas Eltrich <elchy@efs.camelot.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/20/1997 21:45:52
> > What i usually do is something like:
> > - disklabel sd0 >x
> > - edit x to suit your partition-needs
> > - disklabel -R -r sd0 x
> Hmm, what ist the advantage of this procedure compared with disklabel -e ?
IF there's already a label on the disk - none. But if there's no label
(partition table, whatever you call it) on the disk, there's nothing to
edit, so you have to write one from scratch.
(Note the -r option, which writes the label to the disk, not the
in-core label).
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>