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Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner?
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> >The magicness of the `c' partition simply solves the chicken-and-egg
> >problem for an unlabelled disk.

[ ... ]

> Don't you also need it for bad144'ing?

No, you don't.  Not if you do BAD144 "the right way".


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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