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To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
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> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> > > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
> >=20
> > 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.=
>  =20
> > 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=20
> > 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:

Oh, good.   I will have to check it out.   
Except for a little tinkering to check out device support, I haven't
had time (or a free machine) to look at 5.xxx yet.   

////jerry
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Ddisklabel&apropos=3D0&sektio=
> n=3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+4.9-stable&format=3Dhtml
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dbsdlabel&apropos=3D0&sektion=
> =3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=3Dhtml
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> --=20
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