On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:39:34PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >I'm not sure what you mean by 'disable c:' (and it's c, not c:) -- you
> >certainly shouldn't mount
> 
> Disable c: means setting size and offset to 0, and type to unknown, for 
> the c: entry in disklabel -e. This makes the relevant slice 'disappear' 
> from the normal listing and avoids mounting accidents. I hae done this.
> 
> Why is an overlap normal ? Overlaps are not supposed to happen and they 
> are supposed to be flagged as errors (I think I saw such an error before 
> I did mbrlabel).

c: is supposed to be the MBR partition on i386 (that is, the portion of
the disk reserved for NetBSD). So it will overlap (or, to be more exact,
contain) others NetBSD partitions. But it should be marked as "unused",
no "4.2BSD".
-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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