re: Dropping edlabel in favour of 'disklabel -i'
matthew green <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:17:30 +1100
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Way back before disklabel grew the -i option edlabel provided a relatively easy way to interactively edit a disklabel. Now that disklabel does provide -i, (and in fact the usage is easier than edlabel), would anyone object to dropping edlabel, especially given that edlabel was only ever built for a subset of ports. i don't think this is a good idea: text data bss dec hex filename 9613 1016 600 11229 2bdd /sbin/edlabel 38654 904 10120 49678 c20e /sbin/disklabel one of the reasons edlabel exists was to to be smaller for media. .mrg.