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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
 > 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.

Magic .. thanks Vince.