It's 2015, and some people are still trying to use fdisk and then

go asking what debug flags to set for GEOM to make it work.  Advice
them to use gpart(8) instead.

Something similar should probably done with disklabel,
but I need to rewrite the disklabel examples first.

Reviewed by:	wblock@
MFC after:	1 month
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3315

sbin/bsdlabel/bsdlabel.8

@@ -445,7 +445,10 @@ to properly
 recognize the disk:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=32
-fdisk -BI da0
+gpart create -s MBR da0
+gpart add -t freebsd da0
+gpart set -a active -i 1 da0
+gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0
 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 bs=512 count=32
 bsdlabel -w -B da0s1
 bsdlabel -e da0s1
@@ -495,6 +498,5 @@ are not generally compatible.
 .Xr md 4 ,
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
 .Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
 .Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr newfs 8

sbin/dumpfs/dumpfs.8

@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ flag is needed if the filesystem uses
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
 .Xr fs 5 ,
-.Xr disklabel 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr newfs 8 ,
 .Xr tunefs 8
 .Sh HISTORY

sbin/fdisk/fdisk.8

@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ The
 utility can be used to divide space on the disk into slices and set one
 active.
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+This command is obsolete.
+Users are advised to use
+.Xr gpart 8
+instead.
+.Ef
+.Pp
 The
 .Fx
 utility,

sbin/ffsinfo/ffsinfo.8

@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ to
 .Pa /var/tmp/ffsinfo
 with all available information.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr disklabel 8 ,
 .Xr dumpfs 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr growfs 8 ,
 .Xr gvinum 8 ,
 .Xr newfs 8 ,

sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8

@@ -300,8 +300,7 @@ mount /dev/md1.nop /mnt
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr md 4 ,
 .Xr ffs 7 ,
-.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr mdmfs 8 ,
 .Xr malloc 9
 .Sh HISTORY

sbin/newfs/newfs.8

@@ -303,11 +303,11 @@ on file systems that contain many small files.
 .Xr geom 4 ,
 .Xr disktab 5 ,
 .Xr fs 5 ,
-.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
 .Xr camcontrol 8 ,
 .Xr dump 8 ,
 .Xr dumpfs 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr gjournal 8 ,
 .Xr growfs 8 ,
 .Xr gvinum 8 ,

sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8

@@ -228,9 +228,7 @@ Create a 30MB image file, with the FAT partition starting
 newfs_msdos -C 30M -@63s ./somefile
 .Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr disktab 5 ,
-.Xr disklabel 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr newfs 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 The

sbin/newfs_nandfs/newfs_nandfs.8

@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ Create a file system, using default parameters, on
 newfs_nandfs /dev/ada0s1
 .Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr disktab 5 ,
-.Xr disklabel 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr newfs 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 The

sbin/reboot/boot_i386.8

@@ -352,9 +352,9 @@ requirement has not been adhered to.
 .Xr make.conf 5 ,
 .Xr ttys 5 ,
 .Xr boot0cfg 8 ,
-.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
 .Xr btxld 8 ,
 .Xr config 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr gptboot 8 ,
 .Xr halt 8 ,
 .Xr loader 8 ,

share/man/man4/da.4

@@ -205,8 +205,7 @@ None.
 .Xr ada 4 ,
 .Xr cam 4 ,
 .Xr geom 4 ,
-.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8
+.Xr gpart 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm

share/man/man4/md.4

@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ disk found in the
 man page.
 Other tools will also create these images, such as NanoBSD.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr disklabel 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr loader 8 ,
 .Xr mdconfig 8 ,
 .Xr mdmfs 8 ,

share/man/man4/vpo.4

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ When mounting a DOS file system or
 formatting a
 .Fx
 file system, check the slice of the disk with the
-.Xr fdisk 8
+.Xr gpart 8
 utility.
 .Pp
 In order to unixify a ZIP disk, put the following in /etc/disktab:

share/man/man7/tuning.7

@@ -753,10 +753,10 @@ over services you export from your box (web services, email).
 .Xr ports 7 ,
 .Xr boot 8 ,
 .Xr bsdinstall 8 ,
-.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
 .Xr ccdconfig 8 ,
 .Xr config 8 ,
 .Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr gpart 8 ,
 .Xr gjournal 8 ,
 .Xr gstripe 8 ,
 .Xr gvinum 8 ,

share/man/man8/picobsd.8

@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ third form, replacing
 .Ar NN
 with the actual start of the partition
 (which you can determine using
-.Xr fdisk 8 ) .
+.Xr gpart 8 ) .
 Note that after saving the image to the slice, it will not yet be
 recognised.
 You have to use the

usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.8

@@ -180,14 +180,13 @@ To enable just slices 1 and 3 in the menu:
 .Dl "boot0cfg -m 0x5 ada0"
 .Pp
 To go back to non-interactive booting, use
-.Xr fdisk 8
+.Xr gpart 8
 to install the default MBR:
 .Pp
-.Dl "fdisk -B ada0"
+.Dl "gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr ada0"
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr geom 4 ,
 .Xr boot 8 ,
-.Xr fdisk 8 ,
 .Xr gpart 8
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An Robert Nordier Aq Mt rnordier@FreeBSD.org