History of disklables (was: spurious DIAGNOSTIC message "no disk label")

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> 4.3 did not have on-disk disklabels.
Really?

My first encounter with BSD was ~1983 on a VAX 11/750 which switched between VMS and 4.2BSD (or 4.3, definitely not 4.4) every other day and I think it had two disc packs with different partition layouts.
I also remember ws@ (who was the guy to introduce me to Unix) telling me that disklables were DEC’s native partitioning scheme.

Wolfgang, liege ich total daneben?