Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:57:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: "Questions@BSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken Disk Message-ID: <20040524195745.GA92333@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <40B23B9F.1080908@potentialtech.com> <200405241925.i4OJP4l19680@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive.
>=20
> Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any
> sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.=
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> They could both use a complete systematic rewrite. I don't think I
> know enough of the extra stuff (the stuff I don't usually use) to do=20
> it or I would try it.
Actually, the disklabel application and man page got a complete
rewrite and a change of name for 5.x. Compare and contrast:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Ddisklabel&apropos=3D0&sektio=
n=3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+4.9-stable&format=3Dhtml
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dbsdlabel&apropos=3D0&sektion=
=3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=3Dhtml
Cheers,
Matthew
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