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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:46:18 +0100
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        gary.jennejohn@freenet.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years
Message-ID:  <4880666A.6020501@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080717205628.237ce4a4@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:30:17 -0700
> Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> 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
>>
>>     
>
> [radically trimmed Cc list]
>
> sade(8) is supposed to take the place of sysinstall for disk operations.
>
>   
Ahh thats nice to know, might be worth adding to the handbook, I used to 
use /usr/ports/sysutils/sfdisk but somethng in base beats it.

Vince
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> Gary Jennejohn
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