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Authored by emaste on Jan 24 2024, 3:22 PM.
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It is an obsolete tool for managing a legacy disk partitioning scheme.
gpart should be used instead, regardless of whether a legacy or
contemporary scheme is in use.

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Please put a a gonein(15) into the fdisk binary with a way for "users" to inform the project of there use before we just remove this silently.

Please put a a gonein(15) into the fdisk binary with a way for "users" to inform the project of there use before we just remove this silently.

gone_in is only in kernel, but warning message proposed in review D43585

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 25 2024, 8:08 PM

I think this might break nanobsd.
I'm traveling this week, so it may be next before i get it fixed.

I won't commit this before all dependencies are addressed - mainly I want to get deprecation notices into the tree and MFC'd.