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Update glabel(8) to clarify filesystem volume labels, device metadata identifiers, and generic GEOM labels.
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Summary
  • Change description of manual page
  • Split out filesystem, GPT and GEOM labels.
  • Give an example for each filesystem of the program to use to set a label.
  • Clarify examples.

To summarize the original PR:

  • "Labelization" is not a real word. Please change the description of the manual page.
  • glabel(8) is confusing and doesn't distinguish between filesystem labels and GEOM labels.
  • The example doesn't appear to show glabel in action.

PR:262207

Test Plan

Check formatting
mandoc -Tascii lib/geom/label/glabel.8

Check for linter errors:
mandoc -Tlint lib/geom/label/glabel.8

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Can you update the patch to use ada instead of ad, which is the more canonical naming used these days?