On 0902T1737, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:43PM +0000, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> E> Author: trasz
> E> Date: Wed Sep  2 14:08:43 2015
> E> New Revision: 287396
> E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/287396
> E> 
> E> Log:
> E>   It's 2015, and some people are still trying to use fdisk and then
> E>   go asking what debug flags to set for GEOM to make it work.  Advice
> E>   them to use gpart(8) instead.
> E>   
> E>   Something similar should probably done with disklabel,
> E>   but I need to rewrite the disklabel examples first.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Do we still have functionality of fdisk/bsdlabel that isn't covered
> by gpart? Can we simply remove the tools?

I think it would be possible, but I don't plan to do it.  Some
people are still happily using them, and they are used in scripts,
like the nanobsd build system.

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