On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:22:34AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>    
>    Modified Files:
>    	src/sbin/disklabel: main.c
>    
>    Log Message:
>    Let the operator use the DISKLABELSECTOR and DISKLABELOFFSET
>    environment variables to override the sector number, and the
>    bytes-offset in the sector, where disklabel(8) writes a disklabel.
> 
> 
> any particular reason these are env vars and not simply options
> to disklabel?

Yes.  The variable names are mnemonic.  It is also easy to set a global
default in a script.  I do not see any reason why there should not be
command-line options, too, if you want to make it so.

Dave

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