x86 disklabels - again

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I know I've been through the fdisk/disklabel stuff about 10 million 
times, but somehow it just never seems to take up permanent residency 
within my brain!

<sidebar>
    Why does this topic have to be so darned complicated?  :)
</sidebar>

I have a new USB-attached hard drive that I'm going to use as detached 
off-line backup media.  But I need to share it with my Windows laptop.

I assume that I'll create two separate partitions with fdisk, one with 
type 0x169 (NetBSD) and the other with whatever is the right value for 
FAT32.

Now, when I create the disklabel for this drive, should the raw-part 
span the entire drive, or is it only for the NetBSD partition?  And 
should the partition offsets be relative to the start of the disk, or 
relative to the NetBSD partition start?


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