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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 1995 16:11:50 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: disk to disk copy
Message-ID:  <199512231511.QAA24279@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512231309.AAA23907@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 24, 95 00:09:49 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> The MBR can never be the start of a FreeBSD disk label, since FreeBSD
> labels are always in sector LABELSECTOR = 1.  BSD labels for other
> BSD's may start be in sector 0.  FreeBSD would not be able to find
> these.

Ok, i meant ``label & bootstrap'', whereas the label itself is the
second sector (out of 15).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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