====== disklabel ======

  * [[Filesystems]]
  * [[NetBSD]]
  * [[OpenBSD]]
  * [[fdisk]]
  * [[newfs]]
  * [[raidctl]]
  * [[softraid]]
  * [[sysctl]]

  * [[http://www.bsdnexus.com/NetBSD_onastick/install_guide.php|NetBSD on a Stick Install Guide]] - very good reference guide on how to setup partitions

Use ''disklabel'' to create and modify BSD partitions for a harddrive.

There are two levels of partitioning in BSD.  ''fdisk'' will create a partition in the MBR table, one for BSD.  disklabel takes that partition and then creates it's own partition table from there.

Remember that BSD uses ''a:'' for the first partition and ''d:'' for the next one.  So the first partition would be ''/dev/vnd0a'' and the second ''/dev/vnd0d''

== Create BSD Partitions (slices) ==

In this example, ''/dev/sd1'' is the first partition on 

<code>
disklabel -i -I sd1
Enter '?' for help
partition> d
Filesystem type [?] [4.2BSD]: 4.2BSD
Start offset ('x' to start after partition 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]: 
Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [953344c, 1952448512s, 953344M]: $
partition> W
Label disk [n]? y
Label written
partition> Q
</code>