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44 .Nd get disklabel location informations
50 .Fn getlabelsector void
52 .Fn getlabeloffset void
54 .Fn getlabelusesmbr void
60 functions return values which describe the exact on-disk location of the
62 on the current system, or \-1 on error.
63 These functions supersede the hardcoded
67 definitions previously used to derive the location of the
72 returns 1 if the disklabel is located inside a MBR partition, 0 if it's stored
73 relative to the start of the disk, or \-1 on error.