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To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep 
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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:35:03 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@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


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