Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:53:53 +0100 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <pmh@hausen.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools) Message-ID: <ADDF4687-D489-4D8D-9C0A-F40C31D94985@hausen.com> In-Reply-To: <202401242347.40ONlWKZ099356@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Hi all, > Am 25.01.2024 um 00:47 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>: > >> I would agree personally, to moving to ports (eg ports/sysutils) with >> a DEPRECATED in the DESCR or something, or better yet a Make >> invokation event to say "superceded, here is how to proceed against >> advice") or something. > > They are totally useless as ports when your booted from install > media and working from a standalone shell. These are the exact > times you want things like fdisk and bsdlabel so you can figure > out wtf is going on, and bsdinstall is NOT gona help you. > > I know there are a boat load of people that have built there > own installers for VM's and stuff, running UFS and I bet you > they are using MBR disks too. PLEASE do not kick these tiny > little and very usable and pretty univeral (as far as I know > ALL BSD's have fdisk and bsdlabel/disklabel) tools out of > the base system. > > The world is NOT 2TB nvme drives with GPT, EFI and ZFS, > yours might not be, but I am pretty certain I am not > alone in this other world. I totally undestand that point, but what exactly do these tools do that gpart cannot? On MBR disks? With BSD partitions? Ever since I found out that gpart can manage *all* on-disk partition formats I have not been using anything else. You can create your MBR partitions and BSD labels just fine with gpart. At least in all situations I encountered, there might of course be edge cases I simply don't know. gpart is not the "GPT partition tool". It's the universal swiss army knife "GEOM partition tool" for all disk partitioning in any format supported. Kind regards, Patrickhome | help
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