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Subject: Re: Looking for bsdlabel tutorial
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"Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com> writes:

> It seems that bsdlabel is a bit of rocket science to use.. is there an
> easier way to create additional partitions on an existing installation? Or a
> step by step bsdabel/disklable tutorial?

The handbook covers a number of situations where you want to label a
disk.  All of the ones  that I would consider common.  And it gives
syntax in terms of both bsdlabel and disklabel.