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Subject: Re: Disklabel 101? 
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> If memory serves, partition table information used to be in the kernel
> - wired into the driver for that disk - so all disks of the same type
> had to have the same partition table. 

This was true upto and including V7, but not true in 4.2.  I'm not sure
where in the seqence from V7 -> Sys32 -> 4.1 -> 4.2 that pack-resident
labels appeared.

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