Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:12:17 -0600 From: Mark Nipper <nipsy@tamu.edu> To: David O'Brien <dev-null@nuxi.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved Message-ID: <20031029141217.GA76390@newops.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031029072903.GA56958@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031026175852.GA770@galgenberg.net> <20031029072903.GA56958@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 28 Oct 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > It is NOT useless. Why do you think it is? Perhaps you don't relize > that some BIOS's wont boot from a hard disk that isn't partitioned to > agree with the specifications of the PeeCee. If you want to treat your > PC as a Sun, don't -- buy a Sun, FreeBSD runs on that too. This is true. And while I disagree with some of the initial complaints, I do think that fdisk/disklabel in sysinstall need to be improved upon. They do not handle multi-terabyte disk arrays properly at all (unless something has changed since 5.1-RELEASE) and as array sizes increase, it seems like this would be an issue to address lest people think that FreeBSD is not geared toward middle range server duties, which it most obviously handles exceptionally well. :) Having said that, I had to reflect a few seconds myself to figure out how to actually tell fdisk to go into dangerously dedicated mode, but it wasn't entirely impossible. It just wasn't entirely intuitive (although at the moment I cannot imagine why it wouldn't have been!). It's been awhile since I used it admittedly. If you want truly user unfriendly, try using fdisk/disklabel post installation, which both DO handle large slice/partition sizes properly, and through which I finally realized my 1638492118Kb RAID-5 partition. :) -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: Computing and Information Services nipsy@tamu.edu Texas A&M University http://ops.tamu.edu/nipsy/ College Station, TX 77843-3142 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: nipsy@tamu.edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL+++$ P--->+++ L+++$ E--- W++ N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP++(+) t 5 X R tv b+++ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise." -- one of the Proverbs of Hell from William Blake's _The Marraige of Heaven and Hell_, 1789-1790 ----end random quote of the moment----
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