HEADSUP: bsdlabel/disklabel changes

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

The commit below selects the new "bsdlabel" program instead of the
old disklabel program.  This hopefully makes the partitioning
process more intuitive on BSD label platforms.

The hightlights are:

    * All the "historical" fields are hidden and handled automatically
      unless -A argument given.  You should practically never need -A.

    * -r argument ignored (to keep scripts working).  The "raw"
      functionality is automatically activated where necessary.

    * default type for -w is "auto".  You can now put a label on a disk
      simply with "disklabel -w /dev/ad0"

Please check the man-page, I have updated it to reflect current reality.

Improvements to both program and manual page are most welcome.

Poul-Henning


In message <200305052128.h45LS8Zk011878 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp
 writes:
>phk         2003/05/05 14:28:08 PDT
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sbin                 Makefile 
>    sbin/bsdlabel        Makefile 
>  Log:
>  Compile bsdlabel on all platforms.
>  
>  Install a link to the disklabel(8) name on i386 and alpha platforms.
>  
>  Leave old disklabel(8) sources intact but disconnected from the build
>  for now.
>  
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.120     +1 -6      src/sbin/Makefile
>  1.15      +10 -0     src/sbin/bsdlabel/Makefile
>

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