Hi Manuel and crew:

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> If this disk doesn't have a NetBSD partition you don't want to do this:
> this will overwrite your MBR.
> mbrlabel is kind enouth to not allow that :)

Kind it is.  Unlike disklabel in 1.5 (and perhaps later) which will write it
anyway and kill your drive.

Back to the question.  Then how are users supposed to utilize existing data
on non-NetBSD hard drives?

Enjoy,

--Dan

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