Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:22:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <200011010622.eA16Mxw26242@earth.backplane.com> References: <200010311801.e9VI1if19601@earth.backplane.com> <200010311747.KAA80353@harmony.village.org> <200011010332.eA13WVV41938@billy-club.village.org>
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:In message <200010311801.e9VI1if19601@earth.backplane.com> Matt Dillon writes:
:: I would welcome diskrep as a port, but it makes absolutely no sense
:: to commit it to the main tree as a /usr/bin program when the functionality
:: should properly be placed in the disklabel program. Why abandon
:: disklabel when that's the program everyone already knows how to use,
:: and when fixing it is so fraggin easy?
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:Diskprep uses disklabel(8) and fdisk(8) to do the right thing. It
:also allows one to easily build multiple disks that are mostly alike,
:but might have differing geometries (eg make / 50M, /usr 500M, /var
:30M and the rest in /junk).
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:Warner
And this is better then simply fixing disklabel because .... ?
-Matt
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