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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:47:21 -0800
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd
Message-ID:  <20060317174743.GA13507@lizzy.catnook.local>
In-Reply-To: <863bhh3y05.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20060317012428.N52721@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <863bhh3y05.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> writes:
> 2) (most important) NetBSD disklabel describes partitions not slice-relative
>    (like ours), but the whole device-relative. They have no slice devices, so
>    their disklabel actually duplicates functionality of device slice
>    table, and describes both NetBSD partitions and other slices as partitions.

Wouldn't this break the ability to move a FreeBSD partition using a
non-FreeBSD aware tool such as Partition Magic?

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com



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