>Number:         5277
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       disklabel -i lacking
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr  9 18:35:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason R Thorpe
>Organization:
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility - NASA Ames
>Release:        NetBSD 1.3E, April 9, 1998
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD lestat 1.3E NetBSD 1.3E (LESTAT) #133: Wed Apr 8 17:23:38 PDT 1998 thorpej@lestat:/tmp_mnt/dracul/u5/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/LESTAT sparc


>Description:
	disklabel's -i (interactive) option is nice, but leaves a few
	things to be desired in terms of user interface.

	(1) There is no way to specify a "slop" partition.  I.e. a partition
	    that gets "the space not used by the other partitions".  Sun's
	    format(8) had a way to specify this, e.g. assign "slop" to
	    partition h, just make the other partitions, and then h would
	    magically have the rest of the space on the disk.  (This obviously
	    will require a special hack on the i386 to deal w/ c/d lossage.)

	(2) User has to know what the names of the file systems are.  This
	    applies to -e, as well, but is more important for -i, I think.
	    There should be a way to find out the valid file system names.

	(3) There should be a way to specify partition start/end (inclusive)
	    rather than just start/size.

	I note this as "serious" because I think these are annoyances
	that users will notice and complain about.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Use disklabel -i, and long for some features you've used in other
	partitioning programs.

>Fix:
	None supplied.  SMOP :-)
>Audit-Trail:
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