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Old 6th November 2010
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
OpenBSD normally probes the disk and automatically generates a pseudo disklabel with a single slice 'i' which spans the entire MBR partition.
In addition, disklabel(8) simply labels the first foreign file system encountered as "i", or whatever is the next available letter after "i". In looking at the code, I suspect the reason that "i" is used is because it is midway between "a" & "p".

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