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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet1!root From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk utility woes Date: 15 Oct 1995 00:45:51 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 17 Message-ID: <45pljv$4m7@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <45ib2k$miq@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet1.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Clint Olsen (olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu) wrote: : I enjoy using FreeBSD, but when it comes to partitioning and labeling : (or whatever in the hell BSD calls it), it just plain sucks. I'm : really getting tired of struggling with these utilities when fdisk and : newfs used to work just fine for the majority of us. Now, I get to duke : it out with a crippled fdisk and this disklabel thing (which I have yet : to figure out). No, reading the manpage and the FAQ on the WEB did not : help. I used sysinstall again - but only ran just the partioning and disklabeling of the disk I added (I did this in 2.0 not 2.0.5) to get the disk label on it. Someone should write a "mknewdisk" that does whatever that piece of the sysinstall does to make people less stressed out.