From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 28 16:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F135B37B699 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:32:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA15563; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:32:19 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda15561; Tue Nov 28 16:32:12 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAT0W7r10326; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:32:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdC10324; Tue Nov 28 16:32:05 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAT0W4w16795; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:32:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011290032.eAT0W4w16795@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdE16789; Tue Nov 28 16:31:49 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Randell Jesup Cc: Kenneth W Cochran , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-reply-to: Your message of "28 Nov 2000 17:59:31 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:31:49 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Randell Jes up writes: > Before you start, you should look at the updates to disklabel I've > submitted to Warner Losh for checkin. While they don't change the evil > UI, they do greatly expand the flexibility of how to specify partition > sizes and positions, and also considerably increase error checking > (including for minor things like overlapping partitions). Overlapping partitions are perfectly legal. Of course you cannot simultaneously use overlapping partitions, but you can set up a disktab entry to create overlapping partitions and alternatively initialise the partitions you wish to use, e.g you can define overlapping partitions in the label, yet only use combinations of partitions that you require at the the time. Evi Nemeth explains the rational behind this in her system administration books. If you want to look at UI's, Compaq Tru64-UNIX has an excellent disk partitioning UI, with slider bars and warnings about overlapping partitions -- a very polished application. The problem is that it requires X. An X based install might be nice, however I think it's hardly worth the effort. IMO this would be a value add for commercial product, e.g. BSDi. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message