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Cc: Jeff Anton <anton@hesiod.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gpart is junk
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> IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic.

anyway it is MUCH easier and faster to edit disklabels with bsdlabel -e 
than with gpart.

Unfortunately since some time bsdlabel cannot edit labels if ANY of 
partitions are open.