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.