From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 19 16:22:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA15800 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:22:00 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA15779 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 16:21:50 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA22133; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 01:21:39 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA03997; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 01:21:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA14638; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 01:03:58 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511200003.BAA14638@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 01:03:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 19, 95 12:29:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1089 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > I've looked at 'man -k disk', and about the only things I > > > find are 'fdisk' and 'disklabel'...neither of which helps in anyway. > > > > That's basically what you need to add a new disk, yes. Perhaps also > > an editor for /etc/fstab. > > > > Arguably, the user interface is terrible, but you can hardly claim > > it's not there. (Indeed, that's what everybody else is using, or > > don't you think we have to add a disk ourselves ervery now and then?) > > > > Actually, the user interface itself is perfect, if it wasn't > hidden inside the Installation interface, and required you to commit > to an install in order for it to add your drive... You misunderstood: i meant the user interface of fdisk(8)/ disklabel(8). sysinstall and libdisk are an entirely different thing. But believe it or not, all of us still use the terrible interface, except for a fresh installation... -- 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. ;-)