Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:06:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603201806.TAA08854@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603201038.CAA25463@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 20, 96 02:38:18 am
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As Dave Hayes wrote: > >Because few people work with us to make it turnkey. > > Why is that? Since once you know how to setup a disk, you will suddenly feel that there might be more urgent things to hack upon. > would have been no flame. But the tools don't work. Fdisk doesn't > work reliably. Without fdisk, disklabel seems worthless. fdisk is far from being optimal -- but what exactly ``doesn't work reliably''? > If, however, they see experienced administrators struggle with adding > a 2nd disk (something that DOS can do in seconds, we all *like* UNIX > on this list right?), it doesn't look so good does it? I can also do it within a few seconds. The worst that it might need me (for a sliced disk) is to hack an /etc/fstab entry. Given the templates there, and the total number of sectors as printed in the boot messages, this doesn't take more than a minute. Nevertheless, i'm thinking of a redesigned fdisk (that will most likely include the functionality of disklabel(8)). You are free to overhaul me in time with your version, of course. :-) (And no, i won't be angry about the wasted time. I'm intending to write it for only one reason: i'm sick of the too many complaints about the lack of such a tool, and i'm sick of answering this question in Usenet more than two dozens times by now.) See also my other reply from this morning (European time). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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