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On 12/11/13 7:46 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 2:45 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
>> On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:51, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2013 9:34 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>> A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful.
>>> Have you seen the kern.geom.conf* sysctls?
>> Have you tried parsing them from a shell script? :)
>>
> Trivial in my honest opinion. I'm just working on other ``more important'' things.

Sometimes we need to ask ourselves are we designing a mirror for 
ourselves or a lighthouse for the coast.

Both give views that are pleasant but they have very different uses.

-Alfred