DKSCAN_BSDLABEL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DKSCAN_BSDLABEL(8)NAMEdkscan_bsdlabel — program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel
SYNOPSISdkscan_bsdlabel [-nv] device
DESCRIPTIONdkscan_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.
EXAMPLESdkscan_bsdlabel-v wd1
Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1
SEE ALSOdk(4), disklabel(5), dkctl(8)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.
BSD February 27, 2007 BSD