>I am also thinking about a "format" utility a la SunOS, which would do away with "fdisk+disklabel" and all the assorted dodads one needs to create a disk.
>Anyone care to comment Pro or Con

I've just been working on fdisk, and it shouldn't be a big problem to extend
fdisk to do the right thing.  I'd like to see the mucking with the DOS disk
partition table ripped out of disklabel and force the use of fdisk.  That
appears to be cleaner to me.


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