On 19/01/2018 9.45, Jim Wiggs wrote:
So all is right with the world again. But I'm still left with one question: why on Earth is *parted* not included as part of the SmartOS hypervisor image? The old Solaris format command is spectacularly user-unfriendly and always has been. I can't imagine that parted requires so much additional space that it couldn't be included. Was there any particular rationale to not put a better and more user-friendly partitioning tool into the OS that runs at the top level and manages the hardware?
I don't know the reasoning behind it (if there really is any) but as the typical use case of SmartOS is being the operating system for running SmartDataCenter/Triton there is typically no need for creating partitions by hand as disks are used as whole disk devices in zones pool.
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