From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 20 10:52:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24602 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24596 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA22775; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:50:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA13857; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:50:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id TAA08854; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:06:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603201806.TAA08854@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:06:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes) In-Reply-To: <199603201038.CAA25463@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 20, 96 02:38:18 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)