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Date:      Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:12:34 -0400
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
Cc:        lev@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller
Message-ID:  <20110915121234.GA10165@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sLbWySa9GhVqPqkq26aziCpLd9vOhtcSL-ggbVEv8rtA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:46:21PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Second, I frequently want custom newfs options, most notably -b, -f,
> and -i. There was no way to do this with sysinstall

The source appears to disagree with you

>From usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c

/* If the user wants a special newfs command for this, set it */
static void
getNewfsCmd(PartInfo *p)

I'm pretty sure I've used that option in multiple releases of FBSD.

If that is missing in the new installer then that is something that needs
fixed.

Gary


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