Darren Reed writes:
> Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but if I share a physical disk
> between NetBSD and some other OS, is it possible to access the other
> partitions ?

You mean the other MBR partitions, I assume.

The answer is "yes". The trick is to use disklabel to use unused BSD
label partitions to point at the physical sectors of the disk
corresponding to the other OS's MBR partition, and to then set the
type of that partition appropriately.

Perry