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On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:38:17AM +0300, Peter wrote:
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> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
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> >On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:30:21PM +0300, Peter wrote:
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> >>I have done a manual disk setup from scratch and it was very hard. Could
> >>a tool like sfdisk be adopted for netbsd ? Either that or a very
> >>accurate howto released for this ?
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> >sfdisk looks very much like fdisk(8).
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> >Partitioning seems simple to me:
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> >- Optionally, encompass the entire disk with an MBR partition.
> >- run disklabel -i
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> Yes, but I omitted to say that it has to be done by a script, not=20
> interactively. For sfdisk, this is easy. For fdisk it is not. The step=20
> where one has to munge with cylinders and such in fdisk is the killer=20
> imho. sfdisk can be used to automate this I think. It does not have to=20
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> partition editor.
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> >Now, the suggested wedge editor would be nice, but we have all the
> >necessary tools (with the notable exception of the one(s) for GPT)
> >for the platforms we support.
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> Peter

here's an example of how to automatically create one MBR partition:

#!/bin/sh
disk=3Dsd0
for i in `fdisk -S $disk`;do export $i; done
fdisk -fu0s 169/63/`expr $DLSIZE - 63` $disk

disklabel and disklabel -R (and an admittedly elaborate shell script)
can be used to automate the disklabeling if an sd0e is not what you
want.

	Jonathan Kollasch

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