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. >
