On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > I want the USB disk to be also used on Windows XP, so the MSDOS > partition.
The problem isn't with disklabel (8). The problem *will* be Windows XP not being able to recognize the DOS partition. For Windows XP to recognize a DOS partition, *it* should be used to create the DOS partition first followed by using disklabel(8) to create a FFS partition in the remaining space.