Decent partition editor

From: Olivier Gautherot (olivier_at_gautherot.net)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Hi folks!

    I was reorganizing my hard-disks these days to suppress all Linux and
    ext2fs stuff - I finally decided I wanted to keep just FreeBSD on my desktop
    at home. The 2 disks were scattered in 8 partitions in total and I
    decided to
    group some of them. That's where the headaches started...

    I tried to use fdisk but the syntax is complex - I'm sure it is a
    powerful tool
    but changing partitions is not a game where you just take a chance: when
    your data are gone... they *ARE* gone. I tried also sysinstall but, for some
    reason, the partition table was not updated (I just mean to extend the
    /home partition, not install a new system).

    If you take Windows, Linux or BeOS, they all come with a decent editor.
    In the end, I spent more time on the FreeBSD man pages than { shutting down
    FreeBSD, booting Zeta (the new BeOS), opening the partition editor,
    3 mouse clicks (to unlock the partitions, select the partition type and
    commit the changes), moving a slider to the appropriate size, shutting
    down Zeta and booting FreeBSD }. It worked like a charm.

    Does anyone know if there is such an editor in the ports? I have not seen
    any but it would be damn good...

    Thanks in advance
        Olivier

    P.S. please copy me on follow ups as I not subscribed to this list.

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