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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-)
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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav writes:
> > [/stand/sysinstall sucks rocks and needs to be replaced]
> 
> Personally, I rather like the disk partitioner / label editor. Is
> anyone fundamentally opposed to extracting it from sysinstall and
> making a standalone utility of it?

Please! The current ways to add/modify disks are stoneage.
Even MS-DOS has a better partition editor than FreeBSD.

-Archie

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