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On 12/11/2013 3:11 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 12 Dec 2013, at 9:39, Darren Pilgrim
> <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/11/2013 2:45 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>> On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:51, Darren Pilgrim
>>> <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>>>> On 12/10/2013 9:34 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>>> A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful.
>>>>
>>>> Have you seen the kern.geom.conf* sysctls?
>>>
>>> Have you tried parsing them from a shell script? :)
>>
>> Yes, actually.  kern.geom.conftxt is particularly easy to
>> parse--it's already a set of space-separated fields, one line per
>> device.
>>
>
> Oops, actually I misread that and assumed it was talking about the
> XML version.
>
> However the txt version has some very serious limitations - for
> example if you have labels with whitespace it will be ambiguous.

Well, yes, but you'll also get a /dev/gpt device entry with a space in 
it--a slightly more serious problem. :)