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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-08 21:09:39 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-08 21:09:39 +0000
commit074d9f4fd71395f816a8ce65e912f5ad0ed5a1e6 (patch)
treeec98fe16d695848299400115d0cd9320017b29cb
parent1a81aef457a4d2ddda7d6c1852dc335251291dd0 (diff)
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Try to reflect the current state of disklabel (removed) and the
recently-activated bsdlabel(8).
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml22
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml22
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 8f5d53f..6f0db67 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -504,6 +504,14 @@
<para>&man.adduser.8; now supports a <option>-g</option> option to
set a user's default login group.</para>
+ <para>The &man.bsdlabel.8; utility is a replacement for the older
+ disklabel utility. Like its predecessor, it installs, examines,
+ or modifies the BSD label on a disk partition, and can install
+ bootstrap code. Compared to disklabel, a number of obsolete
+ options and parameters have been retired. A new
+ <option>-m</option> option instructs &man.bsdlabel.8; to use the
+ layout suitable for a specific machine.</para>
+
<para arch="alpha,i386">The <filename>compat4x</filename>
distribution now includes the
<filename>libcrypto.so.2</filename>,
@@ -526,15 +534,9 @@
information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive
performance test.</para>
- <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
- &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
-
- <para>&man.disklabel.8; is now only built for architectures where
- it is useful (i386, pc98, alpha, and ia64).</para>
-
- <para>The <option>-s</option> option to &man.disklabel.8; has been
- removed because the i386 boot loader now resides in a single
- file.</para>
+ <para>The disklabel utility has been replaced by &man.bsdlabel.8;.
+ On the alpha, i386, and pc98 platforms, disklabel is a link to
+ &man.bsdlabel.8;.</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the
<option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance
@@ -719,7 +721,7 @@
strengthened.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
- &man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
+ &man.bsdlabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
added.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,sparc64,ia64">&man.sysinstall.8; will now
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 8f5d53f..6f0db67 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -504,6 +504,14 @@
<para>&man.adduser.8; now supports a <option>-g</option> option to
set a user's default login group.</para>
+ <para>The &man.bsdlabel.8; utility is a replacement for the older
+ disklabel utility. Like its predecessor, it installs, examines,
+ or modifies the BSD label on a disk partition, and can install
+ bootstrap code. Compared to disklabel, a number of obsolete
+ options and parameters have been retired. A new
+ <option>-m</option> option instructs &man.bsdlabel.8; to use the
+ layout suitable for a specific machine.</para>
+
<para arch="alpha,i386">The <filename>compat4x</filename>
distribution now includes the
<filename>libcrypto.so.2</filename>,
@@ -526,15 +534,9 @@
information about a disk device and optionally to run a naive
performance test.</para>
- <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
- &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
-
- <para>&man.disklabel.8; is now only built for architectures where
- it is useful (i386, pc98, alpha, and ia64).</para>
-
- <para>The <option>-s</option> option to &man.disklabel.8; has been
- removed because the i386 boot loader now resides in a single
- file.</para>
+ <para>The disklabel utility has been replaced by &man.bsdlabel.8;.
+ On the alpha, i386, and pc98 platforms, disklabel is a link to
+ &man.bsdlabel.8;.</para>
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the
<option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance
@@ -719,7 +721,7 @@
strengthened.</para>
<para arch="sparc64">The sunlabel utility, a program analogous to
- &man.disklabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
+ &man.bsdlabel.8; that works on Sun disk labels, has been
added.</para>
<para arch="i386,alpha,sparc64,ia64">&man.sysinstall.8; will now
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