Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:35:03 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <200011011735.KAA54300@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Nov 2000 12:33:20 EST." <ybuy9z3iom7.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> References: <ybuy9z3iom7.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> <20001031132945.B28476@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010311747.KAA80353@harmony.village.org> <200011010341.eA13fCV42009@billy-club.village.org>
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In message <ybuy9z3iom7.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> Randell Jesup writes: : Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: : >Also, diskprep allows one to "mass produce" disks in such a way that : >you have the same partitioning on all of them, except maybe one "hog" : >slice that picks up the extra bits that different geometries might : >require. : : IMHO disklabel should have always been able to do that anyways. : Fix disklabel. If you still need a better UI/skin/X interface on top of : disklabel, fine, but fix disklabel (and fdisk, newfs, etc) first. How should I fix disklabel? There's currently no syntax for the concept of a "hog" partition in this disklabel, or any other one that I've seen (except for Solbourne's interactive one, but it didn't have a non-interactive way to do that). This functionality would arguably be a big wart on disklabel, but then again disklabel isn't going to win any beauty contests anytime soon. OpenBSD does have a disklabel -E which is akin to the Solboune interactive disk label program. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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