From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 1 12:21: 9 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 E4AEB37B479; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:21:06 -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 VT2YB3DA; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:21:12 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: Warner Losh Cc: Matt Dillon , Randell Jesup , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: <200011011753.eA1HrCV29435@earth.backplane.com> <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> From: Randell Jesup Date: 01 Nov 2000 15:24:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2000 11:12:37 -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: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message