Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:39:30 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@cec.wustl.edu> To: ben <ben@stonehenge-net.com> Cc: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing with extended partitions Message-ID: <20010308193929.A1077@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AA82D2A.7090204@stonehenge-net.com>; from ben@stonehenge-net.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:08:58PM -0800 References: <3AA81735.1040208@stonehenge-net.com> <20010308174449.A586@cec.wustl.edu> <3AA82D2A.7090204@stonehenge-net.com>
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The only other tool I'm aware of is GNU Parted, which handles FAT and ext2 partitions. I don't know about NTFS or ufs. However, Parted *severely* pissed me off when I was moving from Linux to FreeBSD, since it dynamically changes partition naming when you delete partitions, without saying anything. As a result, I wound up trashing my linux /usr. Finally, because GNU Parted and GNU fdisk royally SUCK, GNU Parted didn't end a partition on a cylinder boundary, and when I ran fdisk to create some new partitions, it destroyed my drive. Actually, it would have been okay, but Parted will place a partition boundary anywhere, regardless of how the cylinders are laid out on the disk, whereas fdisk just fills out partitions along a cylinder boundary. Consequently, I overwrote the important part of /home with some other partition. If you ask me, PM is fine for Windows, but if you want to mess around with UNIX partitions, it's time for our old friends: lots of backup media, tar, fdisk, and disklabel. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:08:58PM -0800, ben wrote: > Andrew Hesford wrote: > > > don't think PM and UNIX play well together. > > i would tend to agree. unfortunatly, its the only tool i'm aware of for > this purpose. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@cec.wustl.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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