> 
> > And at last, please don't confuse disklabel and fdisk, they edit two 
> > very different tables:
> > 
> > - The fdisk program modifies only the DOS MBR and exist (almost) only 
> >   on x86 machines.
> > - disklabel edits the BSD disk label which is used on all architectures
> >   and specifies how the disk partitions are.
> 
> Well, there are some "fdisk" programs out there that are capable of
> exiting not only DOS MBR like partition layouts. Eg. the fdisk that
> comes along with util-linux can also work on disklabels...
> 
:-) Of course, I didn't mean the general case, I only meant NetBSD
where it is two (very different) programs.  Mixing the terminology
when talking to people may cause unpredictable results :-)

Just FYI (unless you know that): Also on i386 the BSD partitions are
not mapped on DOS primary/secondary/extended/... partitions, it's a
separate entity.  There may not even be a MBR on the disk.

-- Ragge