On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sean Davis wrote:

> The main thing I see as an advantage to FreeBSD's 'slice' implementation is the
> ease of partitioning. If I had to choose one thing I miss most from FreeBSD
> since the switch to NetBSD, it's the easy of preparing a new disk with
> /stand/sysinstall. Sorry to be blunt, but disklabel *sucks* when you want to get
> a new disk up and running quickly. There is no intuitive interface in NetBSD
> aside from sysinst itself, and, I did not want to have to install a new NetBSD
> system on my new hard drive just to partition it easily. Having to calculate
> everything to satisfy disklabel is a major PITA; especially when disklabel
> itself complains on many valid things. (such as invalid partition name)

Even `disklabel -i'?  I really find the interactive option to be both
easy and useful.  Prior to the existence of `-i', it wasn't terribly fun
to partition a new drive, but now it's trivial.

-brian.