Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 01:03:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <199511200003.BAA14638@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951119122513.1165B-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 19, 95 12:29:20 pm
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As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > I've looked at 'man -k disk', and about the only things I > > > find are 'fdisk' and 'disklabel'...neither of which helps in anyway. > > > > That's basically what you need to add a new disk, yes. Perhaps also > > an editor for /etc/fstab. > > > > Arguably, the user interface is terrible, but you can hardly claim > > it's not there. (Indeed, that's what everybody else is using, or > > don't you think we have to add a disk ourselves ervery now and then?) > > > > Actually, the user interface itself is perfect, if it wasn't > hidden inside the Installation interface, and required you to commit > to an install in order for it to add your drive... You misunderstood: i meant the user interface of fdisk(8)/ disklabel(8). sysinstall and libdisk are an entirely different thing. But believe it or not, all of us still use the terrible interface, except for a fresh installation... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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