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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: Mounting other people's disks? 
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Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 09:09:03 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199705030400.OAA24986@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes:
: Just ignore the warnings and don't use the things outside the slice
: (they should be harmlessly unusable anyway since they are empty).
: Be careful not to write to the label or the parts outside the slice will
: be forgotten.

But the slice code is ignoring the entire disk.  Since the disklabel
from OpenBSD is absolute for the entire disk, and since the c
partition is the entire disk, all the interesting slices are being
ignored.

: If you actually want to mount things that are outside the slice, then
: you have to use fdisk to change the slice so that they are inside, or
: just refer to them using the correct slice number.

Ufff.  I'll have to play with that.

Thanks for the pointers and tips.

Wanrer