Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:30:17 -0700
Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> > I think the best route to that is to have a separate utility for managing disk 
> > partitioning.  The installer can then use that utility, and sysadmins can 
> > also use it later after the system is installed.
> 
> i often invoke sysinstall on a running system to slice/partition/etc a
> new drive
> 

[radically trimmed Cc list]

sade(8) is supposed to take the place of sysinstall for disk operations.

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Gary Jennejohn