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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:28:26AM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:24:05AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > So you don't mind me moving fdisk & disklable out of /sbin?
> 
> Obviously moving fdisk and disklabel out of /sbin would be very very bad.
> 
> > IMHO, fdisk & disklabel are not usable for most.  And don't bring up your
> > WIP on fdisk & disklabel until they are committed.
> 
> I've never used sysinstall for adding disks or editing partitions or
> anything after the initial install... ever. I don't even consider my
> knowledge of the slice/partition layout to be exceptional, I just read
> the available information (handbook, man pages) and learned how to
> do it.

Then until just recently you not been creating properly sliced disk (no
matter how much you think you have been).  Also, just because you are
comformatable with fdisk+disklable doesn't mean most of our users are....
 
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