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 endianness.

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

dkscan_bsdlabel
  -v wd1

Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1

HISTORY

The dkscan_bsdlabel command first appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

Martin Huseman wrote the dkscan_bsdlabel utility. It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by Jason R. Thorpe.