David Laight wrote:

> <>It will cause least confusion to any other OS that might find the disk
> if the disk has an mbr (aka fdisk) partition table, and that any NetBSD
> filesystems are entirely with the NetBSD (type 169) mbr partition (or
> some other mbr partition).
> Some system BIOS may also refuse to boot disks that don't look 'right'.
>
I've read somewhere that all partitions should start and end on cylinder 
boundaries. How come disklabel does not do that automatically?
Here is what disklabel does by default:

#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    524475        63     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43712  # (Cyl.      
0*-    555*)
 b:    524475    524538       swap                     # (Cyl.    
555*-   1110*)
 c:   6335217        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      
0*-   6703)
 d:   6335280         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 
-   6703)
 e:   5286267   1049013     4.2BSD   1024  8192 46376  # (Cyl.   
1110*-   6703)


And here is what I did manually on another disk, to align partitions to 
cylinder boundaries:

#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    523152      1008     4.2BSD   1024  8192 32704  # (Cyl.      1 
-    519)
 b:   1048320    524160       swap                     # (Cyl.    520 
-   1559)
 c:  78164352      1008     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      1 -  
77544)
 d:  78165360         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  
77544)
 e:  76592880   1572480     4.2BSD   2048 16384 28792  # (Cyl.   1560 -  
77544)