Subject: Re: interactive disk label editing
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2005 13:02:03
> How can I run the sort of interactive disk label editor that appears
> in the installation process for NetBSD to extend the label on a disk
> to cover as yet unused sectors?  I want to be lazier than is allowed
> for by the -i option to disklabel(8), and see the whole label so that
> I can adjust as I go.

You may want to look at
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/hacks/bsdlabel.c, which is a program
I wrote for interactively fiddling BSD disklabels (such as were used by
NetBSD/i386 last I checked).

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