Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:40:18 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <20080911203746.L439@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <48C8F0EA.4030505@unsane.co.uk> References: <20080905213656.BDB444500F@ptavv.es.net> <20080906141423.N439@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1220762797.29265.43.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <20080909010813.L439@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <48C8F0EA.4030505@unsane.co.uk>
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > 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. Magic .. thanks Vince.
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