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From: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM>
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Subject: misc/2185: add ability to change partition type in libdisk/sysinstall
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>Number:         2185
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       add ability to change partition type in libdisk/sysinstall
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec  8 23:50:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Traina
>Organization:
Shockwave Engineering
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

>Description:

It would be very nice if we had the ability in sysinstal/libdisk to just
"change" the partition type on an existing partition.

Why?  because on some systems, the partitioning is already a little weird
due to things like laptop-save-to-disk or bios translation.  It can be
trivial to configure partitions in dos once the bios mucking has been
done with fdisk,  and then just "fix" them in sysinstall.

Right now, I have to configure with fdisk, "fix" with pfdisk under dos,
and then run sysinstall.  Some users may not be as brilliant as I am. :-)

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Add change partition id command to sysinstall partition menu before 2.2
release.
	
>Audit-Trail:
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