Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:09:02 -0500 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition Magic Message-ID: <38DD2AEE.F2EAA1E6@charm.net> References: <200003251207.HAA21004@bg-tc-ppp269.monmouth.com>
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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
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