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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com
Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency
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>Bruce, it doesn't confuse me, but I have got too many emails of the type

>	I (made the following mistake) then I thought, Hmm, lets try the
>	geometry they print at boot, and now my MSDOS is gone..

This happens because fdisk/disklabel are confused.  It shouldn't be possible
to easily clobber a foreign partition.

Bruce