BSD Label Editor

[Niatross]

In the past, I have used the following command to edit a BSD label: bsdlabel -A -e <slice>. Does gpart, glabel or any other command out there do the same thing?

 

[wblock@]

gpart(8) does, yes. A disklabel is just another type of partition table, and one of the types that gpart(8) handles. See http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_mbr for examples.

 

[Niatross]

Maybe I'm missing something with the link you gave me.

What gpart command would be comparable to bsdlabel -A -e <slice>?

 

[wblock@]

It's not interactive, so -e does not apply. I can't really tell what -A does, but gpart(8) knows the BSDlabel structure.

In short, use gpart(8)'s create, add, delete, and modify subcommands to modify BSDlabel partitions.