Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:29:23 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <200011290330.eAT3U6P17746@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Nov 2000 20:06:02 EST." <ybu7l5n1tad.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>
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In message <ybu7l5n1tad.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>, Randell Jes up writes: > 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. I have no problem with that. > > >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. Digital's diskconfig is probably what you want. If you need to see an example, I could try to get an xwd dump of a diskconfig window. It's pretty slick though I still prefer to use disklabel for various reasons. 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
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