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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:41:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner?
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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.