> Yes, you need to be carefull to not write the label back to the disk, 
 > it will trash you DOS partition table (it will warn you about this, 
 > and you'll have to enter 'yes' to really do it). But if you use 
 > 'disklabel' and not 'disklanel -r', it will only update the in-memory 
 > copy and won't touch the disk.

I have somewhere a recipe for adding a netbsd disklabel to a netbsd
partition on a second disk that doesn't already have one, but where
you don't want to trash other partitions on that disk. I can probably
dig it up if someone wants it.

It turned out to be rather nontrivial, because to prevent catastrophe
you need to write the disklabel to the c partition... but the c
partition gives ENXIO when there isn't a disklabel. I forget whether
it turned out to be possible to do it without clobbering and restoring
the fdisk table, but I think it wasn't.

This may have been under 1.2, though.

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