> On 30. Jul 2024, at 10:02, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:26 PM nsgnkhibdk2cls0f via illumos-discuss > <discuss@lists.illumos.org <mailto:discuss@lists.illumos.org>> wrote: >> The gpart utility of FreeBSD is very user friendly, unlike the illumos >> format program which is terrible. > > There are certain applications, and disk formatting utilities arguably fall > into this > camp, where the ideal path forward is not to make it user-friendly, but to > move > towards eradicating the need to use it at all.
I once had group of 4 linux admins in solaris sysadmin training, 3 of 4 failed tasks related to disk partitioning:) not because of tooling, but because of lack of understanding the concept. (they were rather surprised themselves;) And yes, that surviving one had BSD background;) I have had an idea of building something like gpart is — from UI point of view it really does not matter how the partition support is implemented in the kernel, but never got time to do it. I think it would be interesting task for something like GSoC… Of course from technical point of view the geom is otherwise interesting. rgds, toomas ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Td48bc38764831ebd-M4a45a73bb6fdf97c66268d47 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
