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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fdisk Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:50:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4sl8e0$53o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jon-1707961309120001@jons7500.vc.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jon@vcnet.com (Jon Rust) wrote: > I'm a recent Linux transfer. I was using Linux for inn, but I like the > FreeBSD system better. Except for fdisk. Linux has this cool utility > called cfdisk. /stand/sysinstall should now be up to the task as well. It was not really usable for this purpose in 2.1 however. > Is there a more userfriendly interface to fdisk and disklabel? Damn, you'd > have to study the man pages, and a boat load of books to understand > everything involved with these two programs. An unnecassary level of > detail as demonstrated by the relatively clean and easy Linux method. Well, people coming from a BSD/Ultrix/SunOS background usually have very few problems with labelling a disk. *smile* Despite of the new sysinstall, that's what i would do to add a new disk. (Disclaimer: no need for DOS or Linux compatibility etc.) 1. see whether the driver annoucement is there, say it's "sd2" 2. ignore fdisk :), BSD doesn't need it 3. disklabel -Brw sd2 auto # not available in 2.1, but in 2.1.5 & 2.2 4. disklabel -e sd2 # edit my partitions 5. newfs -d0 /dev/rsd2e # etc. 6. vi /etc/fstab 7. mount -a -t ufs -u ...and i'm done. Do you find it difficult? ;-) -- 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. ;-)