Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:40:03 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools) Message-ID: <202401241740.40OHe30K039726@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2CK0Vq8U6J-H4XU3pNA33-uKAxUoNOAbM9SdSFa0Bcqkg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2CK0Vq8U6J-H4XU3pNA33-uKAxUoNOAbM9SdSFa0Bcqkg@mail.gmail.com>
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-------- Ed Maste writes: > MBR (PC BIOS) partition tables were historically maintained with > fdisk(8), but gpart(8) has long been the preferred method for working > with partition tables of all types. fdisk has been declared as > obsolete in the man page since 2015. Similarly BSD disklabels were > historically maintained with bsdlabel. It does not yet have a > deprecation notice - I have proposed a man page addition in > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43563. By all means! It may even be possible to shave some of the weirder bits out of GEOM when they're gone. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.help
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