Date: 23 Nov 2000 06:27:30 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@cybercable.fr> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <ofz7p8al.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:21:38 -0700" References: <200011212157.QAA21696@world.std.com> <200011220121.SAA39083@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: > In message <200011212157.QAA21696@world.std.com> Kenneth W Cochran writes: > : 1. I find BSD fdisk complex & unwieldy. I like the fdisk > : tools in Slackware Linux, specifically fdisk & cfdisk; > : Slackware's fdisk works enough like that in M$, SCO & > : Interactive (remember that? :) to be Reasonably > : Familiar. So, when I need to lay-out a hdd, I usually > : use the Slackware tools, but also PartitionMagic, > : depending on What I'm Trying To Do. Then I change the > : type indicator for BSD. Maybe some kind of "port" of > : Slackware's fdisk/cfdisk might be in order? somewhere on my hard disk, I've "ported" the Linux fdisk to FreeBSD. it seems to works, but less powerfull than the Freebsd one. try to change the size of a partition w/o deleting it before. you're dead. FreeBSD fdisk can do this, while sysinstall can't :( while this port is "finished" in a simple way. I'm extending it, as well as the FreeBSD one, so they share the same partition name reference table. which is not the case, right now. > I have a partial port of OpenBSD's fdisk, and it is much, much nicer. > I also have a partial port of disklabel -E, but both of these have > rotted so much they don't even compile any more. well, I've just installed OpenBSD on a Tadpole (for fun :) and disklabel -E seems to be as near as the Linux fdisk in the spirit, no ? Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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