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35 .Nd program to create wedges from a BSD disklabel
42 scans a disk for a BSD disklabel, which does not need to be the
43 label variant used on the architecture currently running, or even
46 The following options are supported:
47 .Bl -tag -width device -compact
49 No execution - list the wedges, but do not create them.
51 Be more verbose - print additional information.
55 specifices the disk on which the disklabel is scanned and to which
59 Create wedges from all recognized partitions on wd1
67 command first appeared in
75 It is reusing a lot of kernel code written by