In message <199409120840.KAA14008@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de>, you write: 

-> > >Synopsis:       i386 disklabel STILL clobbers DOS part table if exists!

[...]

-> This has been driving me mad for several months at least.  Everyone I asked 
-> for help told me that after the latest "redundant seek" patch, disklabel 
-> works perfectly, and that [more or less] I was just too stupid to use it 
-> correctly.

	I clobbered my MBR about 20 times in the process of updating my boot-
	blocks to the newest ones and re-labeling my drives so I could mount
	the MSDOS partitions from BSD.  After a while I was convinced it had
	to be disklabel's fault, not mine... So I went digging through the
	source...

	I'm just praying someone picks this up before the 1.0 release...

-> Relieved -- Volker

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