From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 09:06:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20069 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 09:06:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19983 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 09:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA26203 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 18:05:43 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA04097 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 18:05:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA24279 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 16:11:51 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512231511.QAA24279@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: disk to disk copy To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 16:11:50 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512231309.AAA23907@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 24, 95 00:09:49 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > The MBR can never be the start of a FreeBSD disk label, since FreeBSD > labels are always in sector LABELSECTOR = 1. BSD labels for other > BSD's may start be in sector 0. FreeBSD would not be able to find > these. Ok, i meant ``label & bootstrap'', whereas the label itself is the second sector (out of 15). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)