From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 15 16:20:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25537 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rain.futuresouth.com (rain.futuresouth.com [198.79.79.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25502 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:20:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stormy@rain.futuresouth.com) Received: (from stormy@localhost) by rain.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27143 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:19:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stormy) Message-ID: <19981015181950.D14754@futuresouth.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:19:50 -0500 From: Stormy Henderson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199810151655.MAA00553@lafcol> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:46:56AM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A happy camper (Jonathan Chen, jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) once wrote... > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Mike Knoll wrote: >> Are there any partition resizers out there for UFS? > > UFS is *WAY-DIFFERENT* from MS-type file-systems. You're welcome to > try, but interest is low. On the contrary, interest is high...but among the newer users, not the developers. The developers already have systems setup and configured perfectly; they have no need for resizing partitions because they already know what sizes they need for what they do. Us less experienced users, however, have no clue. We either take the defaults or strike out on our own, and with disappointing regularity, neither path quite fits our needs. So the users are correct to ask for a tool to help ease the transition to FreeBSD. Of course, the developers know how hard it would be to code something like this, while the users can but think, "MSDOS has partition resizers, even in shareware, surely FreeBSD can compete here too." We have no concept of the differences between the filesystems, nor the inherent difficulty that this project may present, given the vastly more complicated FS. So the developers are correct to maintain that such a tool is unfeasible, given the challenge it presents, their time restraints, and the other priorities that beset them. But don't say interest is low. (c: Be happy... -- http://www.futuresouth.com/~stormy/signature.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message