In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Br
andon D. Valentine" writes:
>On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
>>No, and no. You misunderstand the problem.
>>
>>A disk on IBM PC compatible computers has the following format:
>>
>>| Partition table | Data |
>> | Slice 1 | Slice 2 | Slice 3 | Slice 4 |
>> | Disklabel | Data |
>> | c |
>> |a|b|f|g|
>
>That is really an excellent diagram. That should be in an FAQ
>somewhere. Doc committers?
Except it is not actually correct. The BSD disklabel is usually
inside the 'a' partition and certainly inside the 'c'
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