At 2:29 PM -0700 7/10/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 10, 2001, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find
> > the FreeBSD partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest
> > one I've ever used.
> > What should be changed to make it easier?
>
>Maybe not "easier" but better:
>
>+ Allow one to specify the partition letter, than assumeing `e'.
>+ Allow one to specify the ordering of partitions that will be written.
> Alpha users keep getting bit in the ass because sysinstall orders the
> swap partition at the begining of the disk vs. after /. One cannot
> tell which order the partitions will be written to disk.
Hmm. Is it a different program on Alpha than i386? On i386, the
order on the disk seems to always be the order they were created
in disklabel (which might or might not match the order of the
partition letters...).
On i386, I know know the program seems to want to futz with the
partition letters based on the name you give to the partition, which
is sometimes annoying. Ie, it "wants" the root partition to be
partition 'a', and swap to be partition 'b', but there are times
when that's not what *I* want (for one reason or another). I
sometimes create partitions with the wrong name (such as '/') so
I can get the partition letter I want, and then rename the
partition after it has assigned the letter.
It may just be the weird way I operate, in that I create multiple
'fdisk partitions' which will hold freebsd "slices" (so I can
boot between freebsd-stable and freebsd-current). Or I'll use
sysinstall to repartition one disk while up-and-running on a
different disk.
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