NAME
dkscan_bsdlabel
- program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel
SYNOPSIS
dkscan_bsdlabel
[-nv]
device
DESCRIPTION
dkscan_bsdlabel
scans a disk for a BSD disklabel, which does not need to be the
label variant used on the architecture currently running, or even
the same endianess.
The following options are supported:
- -n
-
No execution - list the wedges, but do not create them.
- -v
-
Be more verbose - print additional information.
The argument
device
specifices the disk on which the disklabel is scanned and to which
the wedges are added.
EXAMPLES
Flv wd1
Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1
SEE ALSO
dk(4),
disklabel(5),
dkctl(8)
HISTORY
The
dkscan_bsdlabel
command first appeared in
NetBSD5.0.
AUTHORS
Martin Huseman
wrote the
dkscan_bsdlabel
utility.
It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by
Jason R. Thorpe.