> 
> i've often just newfs'ed and mounted the 'c' partition and not ever
> bothered with even putting a disk label on the disk.. my kernel boots
> and i get 4 "no disk label" messages currently, actually...
> 
On disks that uses the BAD144 bad block replacemet it's not a good idea
to use the 'c' partition, because the bad block file is last on that
partition, so you will overwrite your bad block information.

IIRC PC MFM disks uses BAD144 on NetBSD. Is that correct?

-- Ragge