From 3b7cf0602afa98783236f50d055645fac667434b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marcel <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:33:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document how labels can be given to partitions.

---
 mkimg.1 | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mkimg.1 b/mkimg.1
index b7ae9df11792..7bb58d8e1c1d 100644
--- a/mkimg.1
+++ b/mkimg.1
@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ To do this, run the
 utility as follows:
 .Dl % mkimg -s mbr -b /boot/mbr -p freebsd:-'mkimg -s bsd -b /boot/boot \
 -p freebsd-ufs:=root-file-system.ufs -p freebsd-swap::1G' -o mbr-bsd.img
+.Pp
+For partitioning schemes that feature partition labels, the
+.Nm
+utility supports assigning labels to the partitions specified.
+In the following example the file system partition is labeled as 'backup':
+.Dl % mkimg -s gpt -p freebsd-ufs/backup:=file-system.ufs -o gpt.img
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr gpart 8
 .Xr makefs 8