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.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" @(#)disklabel.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\" $Id: disklabel.8,v 1.6 1997/02/22 14:32:12 peter Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd April 19, 1994
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.Dt DISKLABEL 8
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm disklabel
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.Nd read and write disk pack label
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm disklabel
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.Op Fl r
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.Ar disk
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl w
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.Op Fl r
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.Ar disk Ar disktype
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.Oo Ar packid Oc
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl e
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.Op Fl r
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.Ar disk
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl R
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.Op Fl r
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.Ar disk Ar protofile
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.Nm disklabel
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.Op Fl NW
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.Ar disk
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.sp
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl B
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.Oo
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.Fl b Ar boot1
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.Op Fl s Ar boot2
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.Oc
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.Ar disk
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.Oo Ar disktype Oc
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl w
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.Fl B
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.Oo
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.Fl b Ar boot1
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.Op Fl s Ar boot2
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.Oc
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.Ar disk Ar disktype
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.Oo Ar packid Oc
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.Nm disklabel
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.Fl R
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.Fl B
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.Oo
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.Fl b Ar boot1
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.Op Fl s Ar boot2
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.Oc
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.Ar disk Ar protofile
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.Oo Ar disktype Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Disklabel
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can be used to install, examine or modify the label on a disk drive or pack.
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When writing the label, it can be used
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to change the drive identification,
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the disk partitions on the drive,
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or to replace a damaged label.
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On some systems,
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.Nm disklabel
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can be used to install bootstrap code as well.
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There are several forms of the command that read (display), install or edit
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the label on a disk.
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Each form has an additional option,
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.Fl r ,
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which causes the label to be read from or written to the disk directly,
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rather than going through the system's in-core copy of the label.
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This option may allow a label to be installed on a disk
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without kernel support for a label, such as when labels are first installed
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on a system; it must be used when first installing a label on a disk.
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The specific effect of
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.Fl r
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is described under each command.
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The read and install forms also support the
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.Fl B
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option to install bootstrap code.
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These variants are described later.
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.Pp
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The first form of the command (read) is used to examine the label on the named
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disk drive (e.g. sd0 or /dev/rsd0c).
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It will display all of the parameters associated with the drive
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and its partition layout.
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Unless the
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.Fl r
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flag is given,
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the kernel's in-core copy of the label is displayed;
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if the disk has no label, or the partition types on the disk are incorrect,
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the kernel may have constructed or modified the label.
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If the
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.Fl r
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flag is given, the label from the raw disk will be displayed rather
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than the in-core label.
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.Pp
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The second form of the command, with the
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.Fl w
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flag, is used to write a standard label on the designated drive.
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The required arguments to
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.Nm disklabel
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are the drive to be labelled (e.g. sd0), and
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the drive type as described in the
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.Xr disktab 5
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file.
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The drive parameters and partitions are taken from that file.
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If different disks of the same physical type are to have different
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partitions, it will be necessary to have separate disktab entries
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describing each, or to edit the label after installation as described below.
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The optional argument is a pack identification string,
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up to 16 characters long.
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The pack id must be quoted if it contains blanks.
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If the
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.Fl r
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flag is given, the disk sectors containing the label and bootstrap
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will be written directly.
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A side-effect of this is that any existing bootstrap code will be overwritten
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and the disk rendered unbootable.
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If
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.Fl r
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is not specified,
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the existing label will be updated via the in-core copy and any bootstrap
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code will be unaffected.
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If the disk does not already have a label, the
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.Fl r
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flag must be used.
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In either case, the kernel's in-core label is replaced.
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.Pp
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For a virgin disk that is not known to
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.Xr disktab 5 ,
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.Ar disktype
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can be specified as
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.Dq auto .
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In this case, the driver is requested to produce a virgin label for the
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disk. This might or might not be successful, depending on whether the
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driver for the disk is able to get the required data without reading
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anything from the disk at all. It will likely succeed for all SCSI
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disks, most IDE disks, and vnode devices. Writing a label to the
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disk is the only supported operation, and the
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.Ar disk
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itself must be provided as the canonical name, i.e. not as a full
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path name.
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.Pp
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An existing disk label may be edited by using the
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.Fl e
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flag.
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The label is read from the in-core kernel copy,
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or directly from the disk if the
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.Fl r
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flag is also given.
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The label is formatted and then supplied to an editor for changes.
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If no editor is specified in an
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.Ev EDITOR
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environment variable,
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.Xr vi 1
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is used.
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When the editor terminates, the formatted label is reread
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and used to rewrite the disk label.
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Existing bootstrap code is unchanged regardless of whether
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.Fl r
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was specified.
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.Pp
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With the
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.Fl R
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flag,
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.Nm disklabel
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is capable of restoring a disk label that was formatted
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in a prior operation and saved in an ascii file.
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The prototype file used to create the label should be in the same format
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as that produced when reading or editing a label.
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Comments are delimited by
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.Ar \&#
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and newline.
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As with
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.Fl w ,
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any existing bootstrap code will be clobbered if
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.Fl r
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is specified and will be unaffected otherwise.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl NW
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flags for
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.Nm disklabel
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explicitly disallow and
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allow, respectively, writing of the pack label area on the selected disk.
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.Pp
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The final three forms of
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.Nm disklabel
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are used to install boostrap code on machines where the bootstrap is part
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of the label.
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The bootstrap code is comprised of one or two boot programs depending on
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the machine.
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The
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.Fl B
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option is used to denote that bootstrap code is to be installed.
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The
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.Fl r
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flag is implied by
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.Fl B
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and never needs to be specified.
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The name of the boot program(s) to be installed can be selected in a
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variety of ways.
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First, the names can be specified explicitly via the
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.Fl b
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and
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.Fl s
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flags.
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On machines with only a single level of boot program,
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.Fl b
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is the name of that program.
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For machines with a two-level bootstrap,
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.Fl b
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indicates the primary boot program and
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.Fl s
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the secondary boot program.
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If the names are not explicitly given, standard boot programs will be used.
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The boot programs are located in
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.Pa /usr/mdec .
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The names of the programs are taken from the ``b0'' and ``b1'' parameters
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of the
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.Xr disktab 5
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entry for the disk if
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.Ar disktype
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was given and its disktab entry exists and includes those parameters.
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Otherwise, boot program names are derived from the name of the disk.
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These names are of the form
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.Pa basename Ns boot
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for the primary (or only) bootstrap, and
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.Pf boot Pa basename
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for the secondary bootstrap;
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for example,
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.Pa /usr/mdec/sdboot
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and
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.Pa /usr/mdec/bootsd
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if the disk device is
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.Em sd0 .
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.Pp
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The first of the three boot-installation forms is used to install
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bootstrap code without changing the existing label.
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It is essentially a read command with respect to the disk label
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itself and all options are related to the specification of the boot
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program as described previously.
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The final two forms are analogous to the basic write and restore versions
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except that they will install bootstrap code in addition to a new label.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
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.It Pa /etc/disktab
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.It Pa /usr/mdec/ Ns Em xx Ns boot
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.It Pa /usr/mdec/boot Ns Em xx
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Dl disklabel sd0
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.Pp
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Display the in-core label for sd0 as obtained via
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.Pa /dev/rsd0c .
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -w -r /dev/rsd0c sd2212 foo
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.Pp
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Create a label for sd0 based on information for ``sd2212'' found in
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.Pa /etc/disktab .
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Any existing bootstrap code will be clobbered.
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -e -r sd0
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.Pp
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Read the on-disk label for sd0, edit it and reinstall in-core as well
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as on-disk.
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Existing bootstrap code is unaffected.
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -r -w sd0 auto
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.Pp
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Try to auto-detect the required information from sd0, and write a new
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label to the disk. Use another disklabel -e command to edit the
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partitioning and file system information.
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -R sd0 mylabel
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.Pp
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Restore the on-disk and in-core label for sd0 from information in
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.Pa mylabel .
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Existing bootstrap code is unaffected.
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -B sd0
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.Pp
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Install a new bootstrap on sd0.
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The boot code comes from
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.Pa /usr/mdec/sdboot
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and possibly
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.Pa /usr/mdec/bootsd .
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On-disk and in-core labels are unchanged.
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.Pp
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.Dl disklabel -w -B /dev/rsd0c -b newboot sd2212
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.Pp
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Install a new label and bootstrap.
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The label is derived from disktab information for ``sd2212'' and
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installed both in-core and on-disk.
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The bootstrap code comes from the file
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.Pa /usr/mdec/newboot .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr disklabel 5 ,
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.Xr disktab 5
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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The kernel device drivers will not allow the size of a disk partition
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to be decreased or the offset of a partition to be changed while it is open.
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Some device drivers create a label containing only a single large partition
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if a disk is unlabeled; thus, the label must be written to the ``a''
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partition of the disk while it is open.
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This sometimes requires the desired label to be set in two steps,
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the first one creating at least one other partition,
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and the second setting the label on the new partition
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while shrinking the ``a'' partition.
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.Pp
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On some machines the bootstrap code may not fit entirely in the area
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allocated for it by some filesystems.
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As a result, it may not be possible to have filesystems on some partitions
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of a ``bootable'' disk.
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When installing bootstrap code,
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.Nm disklabel
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checks for these cases.
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If the installed boot code would overlap a partition of type FS_UNUSED
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it is marked as type FS_BOOT.
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The
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.Xr newfs 8
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utility will disallow creation of filesystems on FS_BOOT partitions.
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Conversely, if a partition has a type other than FS_UNUSED or FS_BOOT,
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.Nm disklabel
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will not install bootstrap code that overlaps it.
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.Sh BUGS
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When a disk name is given without a full pathname,
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the constructed device name uses the ``a'' partition on the tahoe,
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the ``c'' partition on all others.
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.Pp
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For the i386 architecture, the primary bootstrap sector contains
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an embedded
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.Em fdisk
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table.
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.Nm Disklabel
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takes care to not clobber it when installing a bootstrap only
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.Pq Fl B ,
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or when editing an existing label
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.Pq Fl e ,
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but it unconditionally writes the primary bootstrap program onto
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the disk for
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.Fl w
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or
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.Fl R ,
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thus replacing the
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.Em fdisk
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table by the dummy one in the bootstrap program. This is only of
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concern if the disk is fully dedicated, so that the BSD disklabel
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starts at absolute block 0 on the disk.
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