Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:28:05 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > >> I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD > >> nom

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Mel
On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:50:09 Chad Perrin wrote: > Perhaps, if there's some *good* reason why we *shouldn't* want to "mess > with slices" while the system is running, someone can explain why. From geom(4): Several flags are provided for tracing GEOM operations and unlocking pro-

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Nash Nipples
> > Ah, but I do. My current problem is a case in > point. I have a drive > > that I'm not currently using, but that has stuff > on it I don't want to lose > > (e.g., the images of another system). I want to set > it up for use. I do not > > want to shut everything down just so that I can

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > Ah, but I do. My current problem is a case in point. I have a drive > that I'm not currently using, but that has stuff on it I don't want to lose > (e.g., the images of another system). I want to set it up for use. I do n

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD nomenclature) >> editor that runs under FreeBSD that is able to deal properly with

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD nomenclature) > editor that runs under FreeBSD that is able to deal properly with logical > partition entries chained from an extended partition entry in the Master Boot