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Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org,
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	Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Rewriting sade(8)
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > My suggestion is to add a "sysinstall mode" to sade where it
> > operates under certain (minor) constraints and reports what it did
> > in a format that sysinstall can parse, so sysinstall can just
> > fork-exec sade instead of duplicating the code.
> Actually, I would rather have sysinstall just invoke sade to do the
> disk related stuff.

...which is exactly what I said - but in the sysinstall case, you may
want to ask some additional questions ("are you sure you want to proceed
without a swap partition?") or place some additional constraints (such
as "don't allow the user to mount something on top of /mnt or /rescue"),
and sysinstall needs to know the outcome.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no