On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:04:31PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > Sysinst also asks all the disk setup questions and asks you to confirm > before writing to the disk at all. So you'd have to try quite hard > to get it to kill the partitioning.
Not in the failure case I observed (I can now reproduce this, but since it looks like the code in disklabel is going to Go, I haven't bothered to analyze it further). I told it partitioning that was non-overlapping with the FreeBSD partition, but it wrote that (NetBSD) partitioning out to disk over *both* disklabels, the FreeBSD one that happened to be at the head of the disk (inside the FreeBSD MBR partition!) and the NetBSD one in the proper place. If the kernel write-out-label code can do something similar, that ought to get the axe, too. Thor
