Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Matías Giovannini wrote:
> 
> > is there any way to partition and format a new disk under netbsd68k?
> > I've tried and tried, read the FAQs; and browsing the old list messages,
> > I found something to the effect that disklabel doesn't quite work. I
> > can't sync the kernel labels with the disk (i.e., physical) labels; and
> > newfs insists on reading the kernel partition table.
> > Should I do it on the MacOS side, or is anything that I'm missing?
> 
> Yes, mostly.
> 
> Alternatively, you can try to build pdisk
> <ftp://ftp.mklinux.apple.com/pub/wip/pdisk/980218/>,
> and see how that works.

I tried, but I found many EXT2 dependencies I didn't wanted to work
around. Put it in another way, I tried compiling with -D__linux__, but
it didn't work. I tried pdisk on the MacOS side and everything went
fine, but still I wonder.

> 
> Any change you make to the partition table from within NetBSD will
> show up in the disklabel immediately, as there's no in-kernel
> disklabel to sync with.

Well, disklabel sd1 and disklabel -r sd1 say different things. You imply
they must be the same?

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