Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 16:10, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > You yet again seem to ignore what it was I said, UEFI/CSM != UEFI, and > there are many buggy CSM's that roach on zeros in the CHS area. I'm not sure what "zeros in the CHS area" is referring to -- gpart writes values in the CHS fields,

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 15:43, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Probably many do, clueless there's a proposal to remove them, > as many wont be tracking lists (I havent been tracking lately, > focused on moving home, other will have other distractions) As Rod suggested I'll have the tools emit a

RCS and $FreeBSD$ purge

2024-01-26 Thread Steve Kargl
I'm currently syncing src/lib/msun with my private libm repository where I do much of my hacking on libm issues. In looking at diffs, I see a few lingering RCS and $FreeBSD$ tags. For example, lib/msun/amd64/s_scalbnl.S contains /* RCSID("$NetBSD: s_scalbnf.S,v 1.4 1999/01/02 05:15:40 kristerw

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Sulev-Madis Silber
add variation of this to stock image to get better rescue media. maybe installer could even be updated a bit. if that is really big issue. cons is that this requires network to be present. but where to get packages from anyway without it, perhaps dvd1. i actually find it confusing that highly

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Am 26.01.24 um 17:09 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: > >> Am 25.01.24 um 16:38 schrieb Ed Maste: > >>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 12:30, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> sbin/growfs/tests/legacy_test.pl > >>> tools/regression/msdosfs/msdosfstest-2.sh > >>> tools/regression/tmpfs/t_vnd > >>>

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 9:17?AM Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:49?AM Rodney W. Grimes < > > > freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Freddie Cash
Sounds like a custom mfsBSD or Frenzy CD/USB would be better suited to these bare-metal rescue setups. Something that has the specific tools you need already installed. I know I've kept various versions of these CD images around for just this purpose. I always found them nicer to use than the

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 26.01.24 um 17:09 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: Am 25.01.24 um 16:38 schrieb Ed Maste: On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 12:30, Warner Losh wrote: sbin/growfs/tests/legacy_test.pl tools/regression/msdosfs/msdosfstest-2.sh tools/regression/tmpfs/t_vnd tools/tools/nanobsd/legacy.sh All these scripts that

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 9:17 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:49?AM Rodney W. Grimes < > > freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > > >

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 9:02 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: > > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > > >>

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 26. Jan 2024, at 18:21, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > >> >> >>> On 26. Jan 2024, at 18:02, Rodney W. Grimes >>> wrote: >>> >>> -- Start of PGP signed section. Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: >> >>> On

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > > On 26. Jan 2024, at 18:02, Rodney W. Grimes > > wrote: > > > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > >> Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > > wrote: >

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:49?AM Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > These

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 26. Jan 2024, at 18:02, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > > -- Start of PGP signed section. >> Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: >> >>> These will

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Am 25.01.24 um 16:38 schrieb Ed Maste: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 12:30, Warner Losh wrote: > >> > >> Those are the only users in the tree, but not for long :) > > > > I have some reviews open to remove some old fdisk / diskabel / > > bsdlabel invocations from the tree. > > > > With those

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
-- Start of PGP signed section. > Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > >> > >> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > These will need to be addressed before actually removing any of these

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Sulev-Madis Silber
call me new, i only started with 4.6, being 19 years old at that time, which is pretty good i think i've always found anything but gpart way too confusing to use. by that time i started with fbsd, chs was also gone for good. hence, no need, and when gpart came, i just switched over. and i

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 10:49 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > These will need to be addressed before actually removing any of >

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 25.01.24 um 16:38 schrieb Ed Maste: On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 12:30, Warner Losh wrote: Those are the only users in the tree, but not for long :) I have some reviews open to remove some old fdisk / diskabel / bsdlabel invocations from the tree. With those applied, for fdisk I see the

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Am 2024-01-25 18:49, schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 9:11?AM Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 11:00, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > > > > > These will need to be addressed before actually removing any of these > > > binaries, of course. > > > > You seem to have missed