From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 9:41: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D97137B419 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3OGeGHx008525; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:40:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: utsl@quic.net Cc: Miguel Mendez , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: graphical frontend for vinum In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:36:36 EDT." <20020424163636.GC30203@quic.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: <8524.1019666416@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020424163636.GC30203@quic.net>, utsl@quic.net writes: >> Excellent idea Poul, I'm currently gathering info on GEOM and I think >> that's the way to go. > >Does GEOM provide a better interface than DIOCGDINFO and DIOCGSLICEINFO? >I recently wrote a program to list all the slices and partitions, because >I couldn't find one already in existance. fdisk and disklabel only seem >to work on one disk at a time, and I wanted to see everything. Yes :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message