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Date:      Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:37:02 +0300
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r287396 - in head: sbin/bsdlabel sbin/dumpfs sbin/fdisk sbin/ffsinfo sbin/mdconfig sbin/newfs sbin/newfs_msdos sbin/newfs_nandfs sbin/reboot share/man/man4 share/man/man7 share/man/man8...
Message-ID:  <20150902143702.GM1023@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201509021408.t82E8h0Q038324@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201509021408.t82E8h0Q038324@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:43PM +0000, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
E> Author: trasz
E> Date: Wed Sep  2 14:08:43 2015
E> New Revision: 287396
E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/287396
E> 
E> Log:
E>   It's 2015, and some people are still trying to use fdisk and then
E>   go asking what debug flags to set for GEOM to make it work.  Advice
E>   them to use gpart(8) instead.
E>   
E>   Something similar should probably done with disklabel,
E>   but I need to rewrite the disklabel examples first.

Thanks!

Do we still have functionality of fdisk/bsdlabel that isn't covered
by gpart? Can we simply remove the tools?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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