Re: Dropping edlabel in favour of 'disklabel -i'

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:29:40 +0900

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> 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.

One possible compromise is to move src/sbin/edlabel to
src/distrib/utils/edlabel. Most size restriction is around
initial bootstrap ramdisks to create miniroot.
(used only on sun2 and sun3?)
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Izumi Tsutsui