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yes, disklabel and fdisk can be painful.  I found  dd if=3D/dev/null =
of=3Dour partition/disk useful at times. =20

I did a dependency graph for most of FreeBSD libs, binaries, and etc =
files once for a personal project (SlimDevices server) and fit everyhing =
including ssh2d, dhclient, and perl, tcl, and most file utilities =
stuffed into a few MB kernel using homebrew scripts and crunch.

Its really silly how much crap there is on the average system disk, even =
in FreeBSD, tho it is much tighter than the others.  Kudos to the folks =
maintaining the ports and releases since that little project gave me a =
whole new appreciations for their ability to deal with dependencies.

btw:  Perl is a real pain to shrink down and in the end made up the =
single largest chunk.  Once you pull in perl, you pull in a whole bunch =
of more random stuff you will never use.  I suggest you use Tcl instead =
if you can.

cheers

hh