Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: Are partitions to be marked as "volume" or "volume header"? "An IRIX/SGI disklabel can describe 16 partitions, the eleventh of which " "should be an entire `volume\\(aq partition, while the ninth should be " "labeled `volume header\\(aq. The volume header will also cover the partition " "table, i.e., it starts at block zero and extends by default over five " "cylinders. The remaining space in the volume header may be used by header " "directory entries. No partitions may overlap with the volume header. Also do " "not change its type or make some filesystem on it, since you will lose the " "partition table. Use this type of label only when working with Linux on IRIX/" "SGI machines or IRIX/SGI disks under Linux."
