On ott 16 19:44, Robert Elz wrote: > | Obviously, disklabel creates custom partitions only in the portion of > | the disk which is related to NetBSD, > > That's not correct, though if written as a "should create" it would > perhaps be good advice for most people. > > In NetBSD, the MBR is used to find the NetBSD partition, and then if > that contains a valid disklabel, that label is used (solely) thereafter. > > The label can reference anywhere on the disk, accessing Windows or
[...] > If you're determined to make a mess of the drive, you can create NetBSD > partitions that fit in the middle of a different OS partition - destroying > any data [...] Thank you for pointing all this out. > Note that NetBSD is different to FreeBSD here, in FreeBSD each FreeBSD > MBR partition has a disklabel of its own which accesses just the MBR > partition allocated to it. This was my guess, in fact (``I don't know if FreeBSD also manages in a different way the coexistence of MBR and disklabel'', without mentioning the details). Thanks for all your clarifications! Rocky
