Decent partition editor

[Charles Ulrich]

Olivier Gautherot said:
> Hi folks!
>
> I was reorganizing my hard-disks these days to suppress all Linux and
> ext2fs stuff - I finally decided I wanted to keep just FreeBSD on my desktop
> at home. The 2 disks were scattered in 8 partitions in total and I
> decided to
> group some of them. That's where the headaches started...
>
> I tried to use fdisk but the syntax is complex - I'm sure it is a
> powerful tool
> but changing partitions is not a game where you just take a chance: when
> your data are gone... they *ARE* gone. I tried also sysinstall but, for some
> reason, the partition table was not updated (I just mean to extend the
> /home partition, not install a new system).
>
> If you take Windows, Linux or BeOS, they all come with a decent editor.
> In the end, I spent more time on the FreeBSD man pages than { shutting down
> FreeBSD, booting Zeta (the new BeOS), opening the partition editor,
> 3 mouse clicks (to unlock the partitions, select the partition type and
> commit the changes), moving a slider to the appropriate size, shutting
> down Zeta and booting FreeBSD }. It worked like a charm.
>
> Does anyone know if there is such an editor in the ports? I have not seen
> any but it would be damn good...
>
> Thanks in advance
>     Olivier
>
> P.S. please copy me on follow ups as I not subscribed to this list.

One of the downfalls to BSD's partitioning system is that it requires its own
special tools. Whenever I need to create or modify FreeBSD partitions and
labels, I just boot an installation CD and use the fdisk and label utilities.

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Charles Ulrich
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