From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 8: 7:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C1937B404 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAUG7jQ73156; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:07:45 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA29067; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:07:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011301607.JAA29067@harmony.village.org> To: Randell Jesup Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Cc: Kenneth W Cochran , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "28 Nov 2000 17:59:31 EST." References: <200011212157.QAA21696@world.std.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:07:43 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Randell Jesup 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). Yes. They are in my queue right now. They look fairly decent. They fall short of OpenBSD's disklabel -E, but certainly make things suck a whole lot less. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message