From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 22 15:12:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9D37B6B8; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:12:20 -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 CX5HR0CC; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:12:20 -0500 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall.8 Breaking buildworld References: <20010111220021.C79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20010111174332.B74480@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Randell Jesup Date: 22 Jan 2001 18:15:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:43:32 -0800" 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" writes: >On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> Erm, sysinstall can be used as a replacement for fdisk and disklabel, >> both of which are in /sbin. In fact, in 4.2 the only tool you can >> realistically use to splat a virgin disklabel onto a slice w/o weird >> hoop jumping that isn't documented _is_ sysinstall. disklabel should >> have that fixed by 4.3, however. > >But disklabel/fdisk can't even accept MB's as a unit. Until they grow >the functionality of the NetBSD and OpenBSD versions of them, sysinstall >is really the only tolerable disk label manipulation tool our users have. >This includes those with a bummed /usr that needs to install a new disk >to get it back. A full set of disklabel patches to support MB, GB, KB, %, and * (everything not spoken for elsewhere) for sizes (and * for offsets to allow disklabel to calculate them for you), etc are in Warner's hands. (I got annoyed at it one evening...) Now, if Warner would commit them.... :-) (Matt has looked at the patch also.) They also have improved error checking, etc. -- 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-current" in the body of the message