Date: 01 Nov 2000 15:24:52 -0500 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep Message-ID: <ybuk8anigob.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2000 11:12:37 -0700" References: <200011011753.eA1HrCV29435@earth.backplane.com> <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> <200011011735.KAA54300@harmony.village.org> <200011011812.LAA97417@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes:
>A "hog" partition is one that soaks up all the rest of the slice after
>other partitions are carved out. That's different than what you are
>describing.
[snip description of solbourne tool w/ hog]
>This is different than what you are describing, which is the ability
>to have disklabel create a slice that covers the entire disk.
I want the equivalent of the solbourne tool (along with Matt's
mods), though from your example its UI still leaves a lot to be desired.
I'd like to be able to specify this sort of thing using disklabel. I'd
like to dump disktab and make disklabel smarter about laying out
partitions on "unknown" (read all but floppy nowadays) disks.
Not to mention that (as best I can tell from the manpage) the
'auto' option to disklabel can only be used if you want it to be written
to the disk - you can't just see what disklabel would do unless you have
a partition to trash. Perhaps there's a way to avoid that by ^C'ing it
before it writes - but I DON'T trust it not to write a new label, at least
not from the man page.
I'm not against better user-level tools. I'm against not fixing
problems/holes in the lower-level tools.
--
Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
rjesup@wgate.com
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