Re: Tell a real disklabel apart from a fictious one

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>]

> If I do ioctl(DIOCGDINFO) on a disk device, is there any better way
> to tell this is a real label or one made up by the kernel besides
>       if (strcmp("default label", lab.d_packname)==0)
> ?

Why do you care?  Perhaps there's some other/better way to achieve your
underlying goal.

I know I often enough do
        disklabel xx0 | disklabel -r -R xx0 /dev/stdin
to get an initial label on a disk; doesn't that copy d_packname from
the synthetic label to the real one?

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