Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 03:16:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall Makefile Message-ID: <20010206031638.A23278@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010206042826.C77020@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:28:26AM -0600 References: <200101191301.PAQ80768@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> <200101192016.f0JKGms55718@harmony.village.org> <20010206022405.J33865@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010206042826.C77020@elvis.mu.org>
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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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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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