1.\" $NetBSD: dkscan_bsdlabel.8,v 1.2 2008/04/30 13:10:52 martin Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Martin Husemann <martin@NetBSD.org>. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 19.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 20.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 21.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 22.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 23.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 24.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 25.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 26.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 27.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 28.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.Dd February 27, 2007 31.Dt DKSCAN_BSDLABEL 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm dkscan_bsdlabel 35.Nd program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl nv 39.Ar device 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41.Nm 42scans a disk for a BSD disklabel, which does not need to be the 43label variant used on the architecture currently running, or even 44the same endianess. 45.Pp 46The following options are supported: 47.Bl -tag -width device -compact 48.It Fl n 49No execution - list the wedges, but do not create them. 50.It Fl v 51Be more verbose - print additional information. 52.El 53The argument 54.Ar device 55specifices the disk on which the disklabel is scanned and to which 56the wedges are added. 57.Sh EXAMPLES 58.Dl Nm Fl v Ar wd1 59Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr dk 4 , 62.Xr disklabel 5 , 63.Xr dkctl 8 64.Sh HISTORY 65The 66.Nm 67command first appeared in 68.Nx 5.0 . 69.Sh AUTHORS 70.An -nosplit 71.An Martin Huseman 72wrote the 73.Nm 74utility. 75It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by 76.An Jason R. Thorpe . 77