disklabel(8)'s "Reading the disk label" section starts out "To examine
or save the label on a disk drive,...". This is confusing. The given
command (disklabel [-r] disk) doesn't save anything (except to standard
out, but that should go without saying). It reads as if the command
might save something on the disk drive.
PR: 32452
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
being:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 400M 0 4.2BSD 4096 16384 75 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*)
b: 1G * swap
c: * * unused
e: 204800 * 4.2BSD
f: 5g * 4.2BSD
g: * * 4.2BSD
These patches are the original work of Randell Jesup, and
I believe Matt Dillon, with additional work by Warner Losh.
Please let me know if I've left someone out.
Incorporated into this is the fix for PR bin/22727.
This patchset still has style issues and a possible problem on
large disks. However, it was a agreed to get these committed before
performing major surgery on them.
PR: bin/22727
Submitted by: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Describe the command formats in English.
Add references to other programs (boot0cfg, fdisk).
Remove some old cruft, including FUD about single-level bootstraps.
Add example of output format.
Not-objected-to-by: msmith
rnordier
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
required information from the driver, and produce a virgin disklabel
for it. The latter might be further edited with `disklabel -e' to
satisfy the user's need.
The magic sequence is:
disklabel -r -w sdX auto
disklabel -e sdX
