Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:27:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199511190927.KAA29641@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951119012635.342A-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 19, 95 01:33:55 am
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As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Either I'm missing something really simple, or its missing... > > ...but this OS does not have a utility that will allow one > to add a new drive onto an existing system. > > 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?) If you feel inspired, take the libdisk (/usr/src/release/libdisk), have a look at the tst01.c program there (a demonstration, basically the same like the wizard mode in sysinstall), and wrap a nice front- end around it. Don't forget to put a BSD-like Copyright on top, and contribute us your code. That's how this system is actually evolving... You can also pay somebody for making it. This would accelerate the process. -- 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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