From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 22 09:39:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E1D0A18 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA64B13AB for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDC75E496; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.968 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.968 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.030, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Mjh1TL0NligQ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:42 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.121] (c224-156-70-80.bjare.net [80.70.156.224]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A3F5E452; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52DF91E6.2070809@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:50 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Am I getting too old References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:39:56 -0000 Olivier Nicole skrev 2014-01-22 10:18: > Hi, > > in the old times (FreeBSD 8) it took me 5 minutes to partition a disk > for a test machine: create a couple of MS DOS partitions, install the > MBR, create FreeBSD partitions, done. It used to be working easily, > efficiently and reliably. > > Now it had been one day since I tried to reproduce that with FreeBSD > 9, not to avail: I always end up with messaged saying things like > invalid partition, or stuff like that. > > What was the rational behind the decision of breaking something that > used to work fine (that had been working fine for over 10 years) and > replace it with something that is ugly, unfriendly (you have to give > some types to the partitions, but nowhere is it written what type is > allowed or not) and that is not working? > > Oh maybe if I choose to go all by default it will work, but I don't > want the default, I want to be allowed to make my own choices easily. > > Best regards > > Olivier If this had been Facebook I would have liked your post :-) /Leslie