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37.Dd February 27, 2007
38.Dt DKSCAN_BSDLABEL 8
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm dkscan_bsdlabel
42.Nd program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm
45.Op Fl nv
46.Ar device
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48.Nm
49scans a disk for a BSD disklabel, which does not need to be the
50label variant used on the architecture currently running, or even
51the same endianess.
52.Pp
53The following options are supported:
54.Bl -tag -width device -compact
55.It Fl n
56No execution - list the wedges, but do not create them.
57.It Fl v
58Be more verbose - print additional information.
59.El
60The argument
61.Ar device
62specifices the disk on which the disklabel is scanned and to which
63the wedges are added.
64.Sh EXAMPLES
65.Dl Nm Fl v Ar wd1
66Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr dk 4 ,
69.Xr disklabel 5 ,
70.Xr dkctl 8
71.Sh HISTORY
72The
73.Nm
74command first appeared in
75.Nx 5.0 .
76.Sh AUTHORS
77.An -nosplit
78.An Martin Huseman
79wrote the
80.Nm
81utility.
82It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by
83.An Jason R. Thorpe .
84