Partitioning drives in NetBSD is different than Linux. In Linux, there is one MBR table with partitions for as many filesystems as you would like.
In NetBSD, one partition is created from the original four that are found with an MBR table, then disklabel is used to create it's own form of partitions called slices within the MBR partition.
In other words, running fdisk in Linux on a hard drive with NetBSD installed, would show only one partition created.
The drives here are IDE drives, so they show up as wdX instead of sdX in NetBSD.
Here's what fdisk -l /dev/sda would return in Linux, for the MBR partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 12.9 GB, 12884901888 bytes, 25165824 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 25165823 12581888 a9 NetBSD
fdisk wd0 will also show the MBR partitions:
Disk: /dev/rwd0d
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 24966, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 25165824
BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 25165824
Partitions aligned to 2048 sector boundaries, offset 2048
Partition table:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
start 2048, size 25163776 (12287 MB, Cyls 0-1566/127/33), Active
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
Bootselector disabled.
First active partition: 0