Date: 28 Nov 2000 20:06:02 -0500 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>, Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <ybu7l5n1tad.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group's message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:31:49 -0800" References: <200011290032.eAT0W4w16795@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> 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.
Mayhaps they're legal - but I think they're also evil and very
dangerous, not to mention confusing. In any case, the updates to disklabel
don't disallow them, but they do warn you that the partitions overlap.
>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.
Personally I'd LOVE more polish in sysinstall/etc. They're a
bloody pain in the arse to use, and quite non-intuitive, even for someone
who's been usign Unix for 16 years.
--
Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
rjesup@wgate.com
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