Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > Or ignore the "N partitions" line altogether?  I can't think of
> > any good reason to keep it...
> 
> Do you mean to have "disklabel" calculate the number of partitions?
> If so, then I agree. I think "d_npartitions" in the disklabel struct
> serves some purpose (to limit the size of the label, and keep garbage
> in the binary label from being parsed), so it's nice to be able to
> view it, but it makes no sense to have to specify it.

Yes, this is exactly what I meant.

Simon.
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