Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:40:03 UTC 
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Ed Maste writes:

> MBR (PC BIOS) partition tables were historically maintained with
> fdisk(8), but gpart(8) has long been the preferred method for working
> with partition tables of all types. fdisk has been declared as
> obsolete in the man page since 2015. Similarly BSD disklabels were
> historically maintained with bsdlabel. It does not yet have a
> deprecation notice - I have proposed a man page addition in
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43563.

By all means!

It may even be possible to shave some of the weirder bits out of
GEOM when they're gone.

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