Re: bsdlabel question

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:24:52 +0200
In message <3EB670B3.6030005_at_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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