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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:49:15 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports
Message-ID:  <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References:  <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

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Thomas Mueller wrote this message on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:05 +0000:
> > gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml...
> 
> > And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart...
> 
> -- John-Mark Gurney
> 
> > XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware
> > it was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing
> > most of our development there so oops!
> 
> -- Alfred
> 
> I just looked in FreeBSD-current, and it appears disklabel, hard-linked with bsdlabel, is alive and well.
> 
> Man page does not show deprecated.

Maybe retired was too strong of a word...  But it is recommended you use
gpart, since bsdlabel can't handled writing when other partitions are
open...

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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