From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 14:47:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8D037B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6ALlSq05226; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:47:28 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com> <3B4B65ED.452CDD5E@iowna.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:47:26 -0400 To: Bill Moran From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel Cc: Wes Peters , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:29 PM -0700 7/10/01, David O'Brien wrote: >On Tue, Jul 10, 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find > > the FreeBSD partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest > > one I've ever used. > > What should be changed to make it easier? > >Maybe not "easier" but better: > >+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'. >+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written. > Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the > swap partition at the begining of the disk vs. after /. One cannot > tell which order the partitions will be written to disk. Hmm. Is it a different program on Alpha than i386? On i386, the order on the disk seems to always be the order they were created in disklabel (which might or might not match the order of the partition letters...). On i386, I know know the program seems to want to futz with the partition letters based on the name you give to the partition, which is sometimes annoying. Ie, it "wants" the root partition to be partition 'a', and swap to be partition 'b', but there are times when that's not what *I* want (for one reason or another). I sometimes create partitions with the wrong name (such as '/') so I can get the partition letter I want, and then rename the partition after it has assigned the letter. It may just be the weird way I operate, in that I create multiple 'fdisk partitions' which will hold freebsd "slices" (so I can boot between freebsd-stable and freebsd-current). Or I'll use sysinstall to repartition one disk while up-and-running on a different disk. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message