fdisk implementation

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Jost Tobias Springenberg
<jspringe at uos.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:27:49 -0700
> "Freddie Cash" <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Matthew Dillon
>> >    We could probably use a new fdisk, I think this would be a good
>> >    project.
>>
>> You may want to have a look at
>> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/sfdisk/  This is the fdisk tool
>> used in sysinstall, and has a decent interface.  It's similar to
>> cfdisk from the Linux-world (but nicer to use IMO).
>
> Ok I guess I will take a look at it tonight and also search for alternatives.
> I'll have 2 weeks of time during the next 2 months so it should be possible to finish this.
> Question to the sfdisk, I am not an expert regarding FreeBSD code,
> but doesn't sfdisk depend on some internal FreeBSD disk abstractions ??

Sorry, couldn't tell you about that.  I'm just a user of sfdisk, don't
know anything about its internals.

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com