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From: "Jason Hudgins" <Hudginsj@smtp.dancooks.com>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 13:46:19 -0600
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Subject: disklabel likes to move my partition..???
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I have a single bsd partition on a single bsd hard drive...its 
partition 0.

After running disklabel it changes the partition table..
It makes a little 24 meg partition on partition 3...and partition 0 
now reads as unused..

here's my big ugly disklabel command line.

disklabel -R -B -b /mnt2/usr/mdec/wdboot -s /mnt2/usr/mdec/bootwd 
wd0a /mnt2/stand/wd0label.asc wd21600

If I read the manpage correctly this should relabel the drive and 
install the bootstrap code..using the geometry that I set up in 
wd21600 and the saved ascii copy of the label data that I made 
before I nuked the system.  Why does it change the partition table???

ARGGGghh =>
   Jason H.