On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Hauke Fath wrote:

> With 1.4Q, newfs_lfs insists on a partition type of "4.4LFS" instead
> of the traditional "4.2BSD". Well -- mac68k/disksubr.c sets the
> partition type for us, and you can disklabel -e until you are blue in
> the face, it won't change a bit.

Current's newfs_lfs (1.4W) now accepts any partition type. The mac68k
port's inflexibility in this regard was one of the arguments I made in
asking for this. At least, I thought I saw a commit message to that
effect--haven't tried it.