From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 1 9:29:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EB937B4CF; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id VT2YBMVL; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:29:40 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: Warner Losh Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: <20001031132945.B28476@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010311747.KAA80353@harmony.village.org> <200011010341.eA13fCV42009@billy-club.village.org> From: Randell Jesup Date: 01 Nov 2000 12:33:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:41:11 -0700" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh 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. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message