Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:45:36 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: diskprep beta -- comments wanted. Message-ID: <200003032345.QAA25966@harmony.village.org>
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OK. I've written a simple diskprep program. It will take a disk, put slice information (fdisk) and partition information (disklabel) onto the disk. By default, it will create one slice (1) and one partition on that (a). It will also newfs all partitions that are on the disk. It supports reading in a config file which can change this behavior. I've not written a man page yet. diskprep <disk> is all you should need. I've tested this on a scsi drive, as well as couple of different compact flash/pccard flash cards that I have kicking around the office. WARNING: While I've taken all the usual steps to ensure that this doesn't do bad things. It has been tested on exactly two machines, one with a SCSI disk, and one with a CF card plugged into a pccard bus. I've tried to put good error checking, but I'm not positive I've caught all the possible problems. It doesn't work with vn devices. You will need the fdisk patches from http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/fdisk-patch [*] and you can get diskprep from http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep It is based on a similar idea that pkh did with his prep.fla.sh. The only thing that is left from that is the beerware license, which I figured was good to rip off from phk :-). Please let me know how this works. I'd like to see this in FreeBSD in the fullness of time. It will be a useful tool and end a lot of the frustration I've seen in connection with the setting up of disks. Comments? Warner [*] -e -> -I and -s talked about in other posts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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