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Ian Smith wrote:

<snip loads of stuff>
> The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a 
> notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and slice offsets themselves.  
> If even those sections were broken out to separate tools, I'd rarely 
> need to fire up sysinstall to, for example, partition a new disk/slice.
>   
man 8 sade
 someone kindly pointed this out to me not long ago, very handy.

Vince