Subject: Re: mbrlabel and extended partitions (NetBSD 1.6.1/i386)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/07/2003 00:55:40
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:39:46PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
  | > 
  | > What's wrong ? It looks like mbrlabel capable to read extended partitions 
  | > table but due to some reasons it cannot add it into in-core disklabel.
  | 
  | At a guess it is adding it to the in core disklabel, but the disklabel
  | is discarded when all the partitions are closed!
  | 
  | You might be able to keep the disklabel from disappearing by doing
  | something like:
  | 
  | # sleep 9999 </dev/wd1d &

Or try
	dkctl wd1 keeplabel yes


Luke.