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Date:      Mon, 05 May 2003 16:24:52 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdlabel question 
Message-ID:  <41584.1052144692@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 11:09:55 -0300." <3EB670B3.6030005@tcoip.com.br> 

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In message <3EB670B3.6030005@tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:

>Disklabel offsets are 0-based. It doesn't matter where the _slice_ 
>starts, the partition offset always has the beginning of the slice as 
>reference.

I wish it were that simple.  Unfortunately, FreeBSD <5.x adds the
offset of the MBR slice to the disk-image of the BSD label :-(


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