Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:41:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970421133906.3067A-100000@dolphin.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <E0wIpNr-0007gZ-00@rover.village.org>
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I personally think something as minimal as sun's format environment would be a huge improvement over the current disklabel. I have voiced this opinion in the past, but not vehemently, mostly because I lack the skills to fix the problem, and don't particularly care to whine about it. Gee, that last sentence would horrify my old english teachers. :) On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > > Is there an owner for disklabel? > > I ask this because I have, over the years, grown to really really > really loath having to deal with this program. With all of its > oddities, and you gotta set this right or that right, or or or or or. > > So, I'd like to fix at least some of them. Is there someone that I > should coordinate with? > > Heck, I'd be happy to try to rewrite the whole fdisk/disklabel junk > into a nice, easy to use script. sysinstall is OK, but it isn't as > nice as I'd like. Is there a need for this, or are people generally > happy with the tools we have? > > Yours in frustration, > > Warner > > P.S. I wasted several hours wondering why my new machine wouldn't boot > off of its new disk. Turns out thats because the "TYPE" field in the > label wasn't SCSI, so it installed IDE boot blocks and paniced when it > tried to mount root. disklabel should know better. And don't even > get me started on fdisk... > > Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
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