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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 07/31/14 22:33, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> .... I am new to FreeBSD, been using UNIX since '86 (ConvexOS, then 
>> SGI), Linux since 1995 ISlack, Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS). I 
>> just apparently completed an install of FreeBSD AMD64 on a 
>> purpose-built computer, Jaguar Kabini based (Sempron 3850), 4 X 1 TB 
>> HGST SATA3 HDD's, 16 GB RAM. I partitioned the HDD;s using the shell 
>> option from the partition dialog (used a shell script,
>
> Why?  What did the shell script do?
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Mostly saved me possible typos typing it all in live .... It just 
entered the same gpt/gstripe/newfs.etc commands I would have typed in at 
the console ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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