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re: CVS commit: src
> >>>> disklabel.h should export nothing to userland and values userland
> >>>> needs should be obtained via sysctl.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been asking this question of various developers for a while.
> >>>
> >>> how do i create a disklabel on a file system image as a normal
> >>> user a non-netbsd host with this method?
> >>
> >> But that would be a hosted tool and that's a different case than
> >> a native tool.
> >
> > Where would the hosted tool get that information from? If it's from a
> > MD header file we're back to where we started...
>
> Why? hosted != native. I don't expect a tool to be built on linux to
> know where to get a disklabel from.
>
> I do expect the native on NetBSD to know how to get the disklabel location
> for the current machine it's running on from sysctl and not a header file.
how does the cross build on linux create an image with a disklabel?
.mrg.
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