David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> Or how they managed any sort of compatibility across the change...
> 
> In any case I would therefore expect that a FreeBSD type 165
> partitition is actually more likely than an old NetBSD one.

Depends. I know lots of people with really old installs out there....

> Which makes flipping the partition type stupidly dangerous.

It certainly shouldn't do it without asking, or at least without
determining for sure that it is a NetBSD partition.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com