disklabel

• Filesystems
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• fdisk
• newfs
• raidctl
• softraid
• sysctl

• 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

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

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