> You don't want to start your NetBSD partition at sector 0, as you
> need some space to hold the partition table.
> Make it start at 63 (which, unfortubably, mean you have to
> disklabel/newfs/copy the data again).

Yup you were right. Took me an eon but:
All's fine now. Many many thanks to all of you who replied. Machine's 
got double space and double speed (UDMA) now and I'm just another happy 
Linux-wiper ;) Now only that sybase data is left to wander into a postgresql 
;>

A happy
Martin Weber