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Date:      Mon, 24 May 2004 20:57:45 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        "Questions@BSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Broken Disk
Message-ID:  <20040524195745.GA92333@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <40B23B9F.1080908@potentialtech.com> <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:

> > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
> 
> Yes.  But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any
> sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.  
> They could both use a complete systematic rewrite.   I don't think I
> know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do 
> it or I would try it.

Actually, the disklabel application and man page got a complete
rewrite and a change of name for 5.x.  Compare and contrast:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.9-stable&format=html

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdlabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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