Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11 AM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes
> <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > > These will need to be addressed before actually removing any of these
> > > binaries, of course.
> >
> > You seem to have missed /rescue.  Now think about that long
> > and hard, these tools classified as so important that they
> > are part of /rescue.  Again I can not stress enough how often
> > I turn to these tools in a repair mode situation.
>
> I haven't missed rescue, it is included in the work in progress I
> mentioned. Note that rescue has included gpart since 2007.
>

What can fdisk and/or disklabel repair that gpart can't?

Warner

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