Re: Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

Reply: Ed Maste : "Re: Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)"
In reply to: Ed Maste : "Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)"
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From: Mina_Galić <freebsd_at_igalic.co>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:50:31 UTC

>  > Those are the only users in the tree, but not for long :)
>  
>  I have some reviews open to remove some old fdisk / diskabel /
>  bsdlabel invocations from the tree.
>  
>  With those applied, for fdisk I see the following references
>  (excluding sbin/fdisk/* and comments, old examples, etc.):
>  
>  contrib/netbsd-tests/sbin/gpt/t_gpt.sh
>  tests/sys/cddl/zfs/bin/zpool_smi.ksh
>  
>  For bsdlabel / disklabel:
>  
>  sbin/growfs/tests/legacy_test.pl
>  tools/regression/msdosfs/msdosfstest-2.sh
>  tools/regression/tmpfs/t_vnd
>  tools/tools/nanobsd/legacy.sh
>  contrib/netbsd-tests/kernel/t_umount.sh
>  contrib/netbsd-tests/kernel/t_umountstress.sh
>  contrib/netbsd-tests/sbin/gpt/t_gpt.sh
>  sbin/newfs/runtest00.sh
>  sbin/newfs/runtest01.sh

i was looking at cd(4) today, and to my surprise, it was full of disklabel references.
I haven't looked at the code itself yet, to see how far the documentation has drifted apart from reality, but to most users, our documentation is reality.