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

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:05:20 +0000

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2009/11/28 Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>:
>> 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?)

I think that is an excellent suggestion.

So, new question - does anyone have any objections to relegating
edlabel to being used in extreme memory constrained install
situations, and not shipped with the normal userland?