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40 .Nd extract block IO management info for a disk, slice, or partition
48 utility extracts information from block media devices such as raw disks,
49 slices, and partitions.
50 The block size (aka sector size), disk offset, and disk size,
51 in bytes, is returned for each device.
52 Offsets are relative to the base of the raw disk, not the base of
53 the slice or partition.
55 The options are as follows:
56 .Bl -tag -width indent
63 .Dl "diskinfo /dev/da0*"
70 command first appeared in