Subject: Re: newfs trashes MBR/disklabel? To: Dieter <> From:
Frank van der Linden <> List: port-amd64 Date: 08/28/2005
21:38:52 Dieter wrote:  >One more partition question.  Why does
port-amd64 need to waste a partition >for "netbsd" (partition
c)?  Port-alpha only wastes one partition (for "whole >disk",
partition c on Alpha, partition d on amd64) so it would appear
that >NetBSD doesn't need it for anything.  Would anything bad
happen if I used >partition c for a filesystem? That's because
the NetBSD disklabel is a partition table inside a  partition
table.. the MBR defines the portion NetBSD lives in, which is
'c'. To go outside that, and truly access the whole disk, you
need 'd'.  - Frank