Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:21:29 -0600 From: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> To: "\"Rodney W. Grimes\"" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools) Message-ID: <0862D1C2-3C6F-479F-924C-9D68021BC0C6@karels.net> In-Reply-To: <202401241850.40OIoJ9o098489@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On 24 Jan 2024, at 12:50, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:45?AM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> 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. > > man page additions are not going to reach the people who may be > using this. This should be a gonein(15) added to the binary. > I also suspect that all of the people doing ufs installs > are doing so via bsdlabel, not gpart. I suspect that more ufs installs are done with bsdinstall than with bsdlabel. The interactive mode is much easier to use than bsdlabel -e, where you have to do your own arithmetic. A couple of wrappers around bsdinstall could make it a much better replacement for bsdlabel -e, etc. (No criticism of bsdlabel, but it's so old I don't remember if I wrote it; I think I did.) I have a number of test systems using ufs, and I do my modifications with gpart, which accepts humanized numbers and does the arithmetic. Mikehome | help
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