Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:41 AM
> From: "Jason Mitchell" <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>
> To: "Michael van Elst" <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
> Cc: netbsd-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

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> I don’t think this is possible. At least I remember reading here that
> FreeBSD’s disklabel is in a different place then the NetBSD’s disklabel
> and that NetBSD would unintentionally overwrite FreeBSD’s disklabel. (This
> seems to imply that the FreeBSD disklabel is not in the FreeBSD MBR
> partition, but I’m not sure about that).

Ok, this is absolutely possible and thank for remembering this probable
issue. I put this however only as an example: the real question was not
about compatibility, but about the... cohabitation of two bootable systems
that share the same BSD disklabel structure. Is this possible?

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Bye,

Rocky