From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 28 19:31:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2D837B404 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id TAA15884; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:31:03 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda15882; Tue Nov 28 19:30:56 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAT3Uo210924; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdE10922; Tue Nov 28 19:30:07 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAT3U6P17746; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:30:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011290330.eAT3U6P17746@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdY17731; Tue Nov 28 19:29:23 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Randell Jesup Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Kenneth W Cochran , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-reply-to: Your message of "28 Nov 2000 20:06:02 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:29:23 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Randell Jes up writes: > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group 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