Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

2023-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Solfrank
Or you can run mbrlabel (without -w) and replace the previous entries accordingly. No, without -w, mbrlabel will just print out the modified disklabel, but will neither change the in-core label nor the one on disk. Indeed. you print the modified label and you then modify the entries (with

Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

2023-01-30 Thread Michael van Elst
wolfg...@solfrank.net (Wolfgang Solfrank) writes: >> Or you can run mbrlabel (without -w) and replace the previous entries >> accordingly. >No, without -w, mbrlabel will just print out the modified disklabel, >but will neither change the in-core label nor the one on disk. Indeed. you print the

Re: Keeping NetBSD disklabel up to date

2023-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Solfrank
Hi, Michael van Elst schrieb: bea...@sdf.org writes: So it sounds like mbrlabel by itself would not have been sufficient for avoiding this scenario; it's output still needs to be applied via the disklabel tool; is that correct? Yes. No, this is not fully correct. See below. I'm sort of