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Old 12th August 2009
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*IF* there is no OpenBSD disklabel on the drive, OpenBSD will automatically assign MBR partition to disklabel partitions -- just as a convenience, so just in case the OpenBSD admin needs access to a foreign filesystem, he/she does not need to manually add them.

This happens only when there is no disklabel on the drive, and the disklabel is being created.

If, after OpenBSD has been installed, new MBR partitions are added, they will not be added to the disklabel automatically. If any are needed, the admin must add them manually.

So:
  • If you will never need to access your two Linux data partitions from OpenBSD, you may remove them from your disklabel.
  • Unless you run a custom kernel, you may remove your NTFS partitions from your disklabel.
  • You will get no value from your Linux swap partition in your disklabel, so you may remove it.
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