Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 at 3:37 AM
From: "Jason Mitchell" <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>
To: "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>
Cc: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: BSD disklabel partition letters in NetBSD


> This posting (though old) says that FreeBSD disklabels are different from NetBSD disklabels. Also back in 2011 NetBSD would overwrite a FreeBSD disklabel on a FreeBSD MBR partition of type 165. FYI, NetBSD has been using a MBR partition type of 169 for a long, long time.
 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2011/02/04/msg009919.html[https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2011/02/04/msg009919.html]

Thanks for this!

> My objection was to NetBSD and FreeBSD sharing a disklabel, not to two instances of NetBSD sharing a disklabel.

Yes, of course. I did mention that example because I was thinking that
FreeBSD and NetBSD share the same BSD disklabel format, but it is not so.
Bye!

Rocky


> Thanks,
 
> Jason M.