> > > 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).


Also note that the original question was about NetBSD 1.2.1 which,
on the sparc, will not do the right thing with `disklabel -r ...'
in all circumstances.  1.3 handles it properly.