Aw: Re: [discuss] [Idea] Import the gpart utility of FreeBSD

[Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via illumos-discuss]

Btw Toomas, did you had any chance to look into the boot problem and the bootloader problem in OpenIndiana 
https://www.illumos.org/issues/16412 having to use an external boot media, prompt and setting currdev is 
kind of "boring" :-) Cheers Iggi Toomas Soome via illumos-discuss 
<discuss@lists.illumos.org> schrieb am 30. Juli 2024 um 9:16: 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 > 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 / see 
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