Replacing sade with bsdinstall's partedit

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Dec 1 20:12:12 UTC 2012


On 03/11/12 10:30, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> I was wondering how people would feel about replacing sade in -CURRENT 
> with the partition editor utility from bsdinstall. It provides similar 
> functionality to sade, but with the addition of supporting GPT, 
> working on non-x86 platforms, etc. It would also keep things more in 
> sync with the installer.
>
> If you want to test it, the following will work on either -CURRENT or 
> 9.0:
> rm /usr/sbin/sade
> ln -s /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/partedit /usr/sbin/sade
> -Nathan

It's been about 9 months since I sent this out (it got lost in the 
shuffle), but I'd still like to do this. I'm bringing it back up again, 
given the delay, and then will commit the change in a week if there are 
no objections.
-Nathan


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