Replacing sade with bsdinstall's partedit

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Sat Dec 1 22:51:49 UTC 2012


On Dec 1, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

IMO, sade should never have existed to begin with.
$0.02,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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