-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] > The only issue I've seen is that if you are new to OBSD, even if used to > the command line in Linux (not clicky-pointy-lindows) fdisk and > disklabel are new. On linux, the standard non-GUI partitioner is cfdisk > (curses fdisk) while there is not such thing as disklabel).
I think cfdisk is pretty nasty. Standard Linux fdisk, with its highly minimal command-line interface, is far easier to use IMO (but much harder to learn). At least cfdisk is better than the incredibly slow and cumbersome dialog-driven partitioner that Debian has --- I really cannot imagine what they were thinking with that one. Actually, OpenBSD does fall down a bit when it comes to partitioning; it's not just that there are two tools for doing what's pretty much the same job (partitioning chunks of disk), it's that they have such radically different user interfaces. You end up having to learn *two* UIs. I realise that there are implementation reasons why it's necessary to have two apps, but that doesn't help the usability. People might be interested in having a look at Minix's partitioner, part. Minix uses a slice-based system like the BSDs, although with slightly different semantics, and part is a curses-based app that's actually surprisingly easy to use *and* learn, even when doing complicated things. http://minix1.woodhull.com/current/2.0.4/wwwman/man8/part.8.html It's particularly interesting because it has a rather good algorithm for guessing magical values --- point the cursor at a field, and pressing m cycles through all the significant values for that field. It's very rare that I actually have to type a value in; which for something as critical to miscalculation as a partition table is a good design feature. - -- b bb o=o=o< o=o=o=o= o=o=o= o<o=o=o= bbb http://www.cowlark.com bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb b b "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language in b which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- Flon's Axiom Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8Fxrf9E0noFvlzgRAtHFAJ9xuoi5AVycWnED4XLguav1EIdjPgCg0pOh ZvwLAZFMIAF2wdQh8tI1bww= =uhyz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
