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Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2008 12:30:17 pm Randy Bush wrote:
>>> 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
> Yes, I have found it nicer than raw bsdlabel in the past, but I think it 
> should be a standalone tool (diskpart or some such) that manages that and 
> that the installer should use that tool rather than the installer having a 
> disk partitioning sub-personality.

oh, i agree completely.  my point was that i seem to invoke sysinstall
when standalone would be more 'normal.'  and then i was pointed to
sade(8) :) .

randy