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.Dd February 27, 2007
.Dt DKSCAN_BSDLABEL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dkscan_bsdlabel
.Nd program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl nv
.Ar device
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
scans a disk for a BSD disklabel, which does not need to be the
label variant used on the architecture currently running, or even
the same endianness.
.Pp
The following options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width device -compact
.It Fl n
No execution - list the wedges, but do not create them.
.It Fl v
Be more verbose - print additional information.
.El
The argument
.Ar device
specifices the disk on which the disklabel is scanned and to which
the wedges are added.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Dl Nm Fl v Ar wd1
Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dk 4 ,
.Xr disklabel 5 ,
.Xr dkctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Nx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.An Martin Huseman
wrote the
.Nm
utility.
It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by
.An Jason R. Thorpe .