Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Conny Andersson <ataraxi@telia.com> To: Teske Devin <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307290032440.1188@alice.nodomain.nowhere> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FF6013@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <mailman.57.1375012801.93006.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20130729013637.M32053@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307282131570.1188@alice.nodomain.nowhere> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FF6013@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
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Hi Devin, Apropos sade (sysadmins disk editor). I have it at /usr/sbin/sade and I am running a FreeBSD 8.3. I also mounted FreeBSD 8.1 and FreeBSD 8.2 and found sade at /usr/sbin/ even in these older FreeBSDs. Regards, Conny > On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: > > In this case, sade is (or was) a direct by-product of the death of > sysinstall(8). It only exists in 9 or higher. > > In-fact... sade was (up until recently in HEAD) actual code removed from > sysinstall(8). > > NOTE: In HEAD, sade(8) is now a direct path to "bsdinstall partedit" > > I don't know what the long-term goals are for sade, but it's a nice > 4-letter acronym that's a nice keystroke saver (at the very least). > -- > Devin >> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Ian Smith wrote: >> --- --- --- >> Right. sysinstall(8) - or at least the fdisk and bsdlabel modules that >> constitute sade(8) - remains the only safe and sane way to handle MBR >> disks.
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