Re: bin/49467: Should disklabel.? refer to mbrlabel.? for how to update the disklable from the mbr?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49467; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/49467: Should disklabel.? refer to mbrlabel.? for how to update the disklable from the mbr?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:10:08 +0000

 On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:25:00PM +0000, Andrew Cagney wrote:
 > Subject: Re: bin/49467: Should disklabel.? refer to mbrlabel.? for how to
 >  update the disklable from the mbr?
 > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:22:31 -0500
 > 
 >  On 11 December 2014 at 13:50, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
 >  >  It's strange language.
 
 Carefully crafted to be correct :-)
   
 >  Ah, I stand corrected.
 >  
 >  Can disklabel still please mention mbrlabel explicitly as a way to get
 >  get the disklabel information back in-sync with the mbr label.
 
 IIRC mbrlabel is likely to corrupt your netbsd disklabel.
 The i386/amd64 kernel will create an in-memory disklabel based on the
 mbr (and extended partition) if it can't find a netbsd label.
 If you have a type 169 mbr partition split into multiple netbsd partitions
 then mbrlabel will probably delete them.
 
 	David
 
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