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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:07:43 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com>
Cc:        Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removal of Disklabel 
Message-ID:  <200011301607.JAA29067@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Nov 2000 17:59:31 EST." <ybuy9y33dpo.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> 
References:  <ybuy9y33dpo.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net>  <200011212157.QAA21696@world.std.com> 

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In message <ybuy9y33dpo.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> Randell Jesup writes:
:         Before you start, you should look at the updates to disklabel I've
: submitted to Warner Losh for checkin.  While they don't change the evil
: UI, they do greatly expand the flexibility of how to specify partition
: sizes and positions, and also considerably increase error checking
: (including for minor things like overlapping partitions).

Yes.  They are in my queue right now.  They look fairly decent.  They
fall short of OpenBSD's disklabel -E, but certainly make things suck a 
whole lot less.

Warner


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