> Current FreeBSD type 165 partitions contain disklabels that contain
> sector numbers relative to the MBR partition (what FreeBSD calls a
> "slice").  I don't know why FreeBSD changed the format without also
> changing the number.

Or how they managed any sort of compatibility across the change...

In any case I would therefore expect that a FreeBSD type 165
partitition is actually more likely than an old NetBSD one.

Which makes flipping the partition type stupidly dangerous.

	David

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