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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:20:26 +0100
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
Message-ID:  <48C8F0EA.4030505@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080909010813.L439@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith wrote:

<snip loads of stuff>
> The wrappers around fdisk and bsdlabel alone are worth a lot, despite a 
> notion that 'real men' figure out cylinder and slice offsets themselves.  
> If even those sections were broken out to separate tools, I'd rarely 
> need to fire up sysinstall to, for example, partition a new disk/slice.
>   
man 8 sade
 someone kindly pointed this out to me not long ago, very handy.

Vince



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