From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 13:10:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E23C37B7F3 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-184-175.charm.net [162.33.184.175]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14729 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:10:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38DD2AEE.F2EAA1E6@charm.net> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:09:02 -0500 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition Magic References: <200003251207.HAA21004@bg-tc-ppp269.monmouth.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Pechter wrote: > > >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:21:37 -0000 > >From: arnaud.gibier@bt.com > >Subject: FreeBSD partitions > > > > Dear all, > > > > The FreeBSD partitions (FFS) does not seems to be part of the partitions > > supported by the PartitionMagic software by powerquest. > > Does anyone know a software like PartitionMagic which could be used with > > FreeBSD partition and others? > > > > Regards, > > > > Arnaud. > > I've spoken to PowerQuest reps a couple of times. If there was more > input from the *BSD community and a BSD developer willing to work on the > code they might consider doing FFS... > > If I remember correctly, the EXT2FS support was done for them by a > Linux developer on a contract basis. > > I suggest we let them know we would buy a version of Partition Magic > (or upgrade our current versions) quite quickly with support for BSD > file systems. > > I'd kill for a copy with this feature and have requested it since I > heard they were going to do the ext2fs support somewhere around v3. > > Bill > -- I would welcome the addition *and* would pay a reasonable price for it. Working with several win based machines with problems is a drag, but even PM 4.0 in it's current retail version made my life better when doing installs of FreeBSD on them. Even if I had to test/move/format in FAT. A published interface would be the best deal. Someone could add BSD file system support as an add-on package Am I making sense? -d -- +---------------------------------------------------+ | Stuff n. -trappings, essence, junk, things, gear | +---------------------------------------------------+ | http://www.charm.net/~dutch | | http://www.charm.net/~dutch/pgp/pub-dutch-key.txt | | keyring -- http://not-defined-today-maybe-never | +---------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message