It worked; had to play with newfs... Thanks
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ya, I know about c and d sections -- but disklabel does > not save them for me. I dont know what my prob is. > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > > > > tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: > > > > >I am trying to use SanDisk. > > > > >When I do 'dislabel -I -e' of this SanDisk, I see > > >5 partitaions: > > > d: ... > > > e: ... > > > > >My NetBSD SanDisk says: > > >4 partitions: > > > a: ... 4.2BSD > > > d: ... unused > > > > >Why cant I change the non-UNIX SanDisk, and > > > make it look like the NetBSD SanDisk? > > > > > > You can just do that. On the other hand, partitions a to c (and d on x86) > > have a special meaning (a is root, b is swap, ..). So if you want to > > parition a "data disk", then using e and following is better. > > > > > > >Can I get a label from one SanDisk, and write it > > >to the other SanDisk? > > > > You can do something like: > > > > disklabel sd0 > mylabel > > disklabel -R sd1 mylabel > > > > That requires that these are disks with identical geometry. > > You also may want to have meaningful 'disk' and 'label' > > fields. None of that is ensured when you copy a label. > >
