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Cc: Mike Makonnen <mtm@wubethiopia.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years
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> I think the best route to that is to have a separate utility for managing disk 
> partitioning.  The installer can then use that utility, and sysadmins can 
> also use it later after the system is installed.

i often invoke sysinstall on a running system to slice/partition/etc a
new drive

randy