Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:24:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: How about a 'mkdisk' tool? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960820111959.809A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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I don't subscribe to -hackers, but here's something for you guys to chew on if you need a project. I lack the necessary programming expertise, but perhaps someone familiar with sysinstall and the dialog library could do something with it. According to the Unix Sys Admin Handbook, BSDi has a "disksetup" tool that makes it rather easy to fdisk & disklabel a new disk. I was thinking that we could pull out the fdisk and disklabel segments from sysinstall, roll them together into a dialog-driven tool, add a easy-newfs editor, and put them into a 'mkdisk' tool. We are in serious need of a set method to add new disks to the system, a one-stop utility would be the way to go. I don't know how hard it would be to strip out the necessary components from sysinstall, considering what a mess it's in now :-) Just a thought. I'm leaving (again) for a few days so I won't reply immediately. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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